B-24 Liberator (Consolidated)

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

This thread is dedicated to the B-24 Liberator manufactured by Consolidated, another of WWII's 4-engined bombers.

Feel free to share here your photos, stories, experiences, facts and factoids.

Here's what WIKI has posted about this airplane:

https://www.steelsoldiers.com/showthread.php?170241-F-14-Tomcat-(Grumman)

And, of course, some photos.....

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[Bill W]

As a civilian my father ferried B-24's to England via Canada just before the U.S. entered the war. When war broke out my father went to enlist and as soon as the recruiters saw his credentials they gave him a instant commission and made him a flight instructor.

 

[Guyfang]

I bet I put together 4-5 B-24 models as a kid. Later we saw a few in Chino, back in 1968-70. Simply loved that aircrafts!

 

[USMC4302]

A couple of those pictures above are actually P4Y-2's -- *very* different aircraft from a B-24

But speaking of PB4Y's (later redesignated P4Y after the bombing mission was dropped) ... most people think the B-24/P4Y was extinct after WW2. Not so. The Navy and Coast Guard kept flying P4Y-1's and P4Y-2's until approximately 1960. My dad was a photographer's mate and served with VJ-62 based out of NAS Sanford, FL in the early 1950's. He took this image while flying in an SNB (C-45) in 1952. I have the original. His normally assigned aircraft was No. 10. Ole No. 10 suffered a takeoff mishap and ended up on the rocks at the end of the runway at Argentia, Newfoundland approximately 1959 or so. The P4Y-1P was used for photographic reconnaissance and Dad flew on photo mapping missions in the Middle East in the early and mid '50's (Iran, Saudia Arabia, Iraq, etc)
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The B-24 may have retired at the end of WW2, but the P4Y-1P flew along side its successor (the P2V Neptune) well into the 1950's.

Fly Navy!

 

[Guyfang]

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[USMC4302]

um ..okay. I just dropped and gave you 20 Marine Corps pushups. Feel free to join me

If anyone is at all interested in the image, just google image "VJ-62" and Dad's shot of VJ-62's P4Y-1P formation over NAS Sanford, FL will come up.

 

[Guyfang]

Roger! Will look in the morning. Well, it's morning now. Then later morning!!