The B-17 and B-24 bombers defined American strategic bombing, but their design differences created very different combat performance outcomes.

She isn’t as pretty or as famous as the B-17, but the B-24 carried more bombs to greater distances and at higher speeds, while excelling at jobs the designers never could have imagined. The year was ...

Was the B-24 bomber the best bomber in all of World War II? What about the B-17 or B-29? Here is the story of the B-24, in all of its World War II glory – The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was a bomber ...

The B-24 featured a shoulder-mounted high aspect ratio Davis wing. Used on several bomber models during World War II, the Davis wing offered a lower drag coefficient than other contemporary ...

The B-24 Liberator was one of the most widely used bombers of World War II but it also carried a hidden structural weakness that could turn missions into deadly traps for its crews. This story ...