B-24 Links

Memorials and tributes to other B-24 aircrews
(mostly compiled by sons and daughters of crews--a growing genre):

15th Air Force: Italy

A son's tribute to his father's B-24 crew, 449th BG, Italy
A son's tribute to his father's B-24 service, 449th BG, Italy
Tribute to "Hey Moe", a B-24 of the 451st BG, also in Italy
A very touching orphaned son's story, B-24 aircrew
8th Air Force: England

Tribute to a father, 8th Air Force/446th BG, England
B-24 Howling Banshee, a son's account of his fathers service in the 458th BG/8th Air Force, England
A grandaughter's tribute to a B-24 gunner, 446th BG/8th, England
Son's tribute to a B24 flight engineer father, 93rd Bomb Group, 328th Squadron
Son's tribute to a radio operator father, with daily journal
Pacific Theatre

A Citizen Soldier in the Air, By Bruce Irving about his B-24 pilot father-in-law (good PT-19 pictures!)
A tribute to Hellzapoppin, A b24D of the 90th BG (Pacific) lost in combat
Other

Tribute to an uncle and aircrew lost in a B-24 crash in Tennessee, enroute to Europe

The Collings Foundation has done a fantastic job on this B-24J restoration! They've also got a great B-17, the "Nine-O-Nine".

B-24 Links:

The Internet B-24 Veterans Group
Some first-person B-24 stories
B-24 Best Web, pictures and more
A B-24 Journal
Surviving Flyable B-24's (only three of the 19,000 odd built!):

All American/Dragon and His Tail, Collings Foundation B-24J
Diamond Lil, a Confederate Air Force LB-30
Joe,, Fantasy of Flight, Polk City Florida (may not be airworthy)
Surviving Static Display B-24s:

USAF Museum "Strawberry Bitch", a B24D, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio
Hail Columbia, nose only, Fantasy of Flight, Polk City, Florida.
Comprehensive list of viewable B24's
Unrestored Wrecks:

An LB-30 Downtown Ft. Collins, Colorado, Airport.
Another (originally an LB-30 I think) Morrison-Knudsen Liberator is in pieces at the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum next to the Anchorage airport - I've seen it many times. It was dragged in from a more remote Alaskan airstrip where it had crashed.

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