B-24 Liberator

Collings Foundation allows you to go around, under and through their B-24, and you can touch and smell it too. I can't tell you how important this experience was to me - to see a B-24 just like my Dad flew.

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• B-24
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• WWII
• B24
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• turret

[16wags]

I am doing an extesive research project of our great uncle who died in a B-24 over Luzon Philippines Jan 10, 1945. Would there be any chance you could send me this video footage for me to use in my presentation at our family reunion? Thanks Steve Wagner, Burlington, Wi

[volleyballjones]

@16wags Let me know your mailing address, and I'll see if I can put it on DVD for you.

[16wags]

@volleyballjones My mailing address is: 148 Schemmer St. Burlington, Wi 53105

[volleyballjones]

@16wags OK, I'll see what I can do

[JTelli786]

how hard is it to get into the nose turret all the videos iv seen this is the only video inside the nose of this beast.

[volleyballjones]

All I did was stand up through the nose wheel opening and I was looking into the nose.

[davidmeek1981]

My grandfather, Albert Trumbly, was a radio operator on a B24 that flew over the Ploesti Oilfield raids. They were shot down and he was a P.O.W. until Patton's Army liberated them. He is still living, but in ill health, so if anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask me.

[truemansparks]

fantastic ,thanks for guided tour of liberator,it looks very claustrophobic in there and must of been terrifying being attacked by flak and enemy fighters,these crews must have been very brave

[Roberto26666]

@davidmeek1981 So If Your great Grandfather is still alive, please tell him that I thank him, his friends and all brilliant sons of american soil for coming here during those horrible times and helping us to not become untremenschen. Thanks from bottom of my heart. I'm from Upper Silesia (now Poland). Thank You ,brave american boys. We will always remember Your sacifice.

[davidpatrick344]

fly in this plane awsome flights for me it was expensive but would do it again in a heart beat

[CGBooks30]

I am writing a novel that takes place during WWII and involves a brother who enlists in the AAF and flies in the Ploesti mission. In my story he is missing and am debating about making him a P.O.W. I would love to hear your grandfather's stories, if you are still interested. I realize this posting is two years old. Thank you in advance.

[Santeria231]

My grandfather was a bomber in one of these. During one mission the plane next to his got hit by flak right in the middle where the bombs were and it broke in half and crashed down to earth. The blast of that explosion also affected my grandfather's plane. There was a malfunction and it told the pilot the bombs had been dropped (they hadn't) and he began to close the doors. Little did he know, the bombs had not been dropped and the doors were stuck open. They had to crash land w/ the doors open!

[offspringfanman96]

looks difficult to get the bombs into