Underside view of a B-24L Liberator of the 724th Bomb Squadron with bomb bay doors open, possibly over Vienna, Austria, 1945. The roll-up style bomb bay doors were very distinctive to the Liberator.

Caption   Underside view of a B-24L Liberator of the 724th Bomb Squadron with bomb bay doors open, possibly over Vienna, Austria, 1945. The roll-up style bomb bay doors were very distinctive to the Liberator. ww2dbase
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Source    ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives via D. Sheley
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Added Date 15 Jan 2013

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1. Zoran Petek says:
1 Feb 2015 05:17:45 AM

This particular 451st BG, 724th BS B-24 numbered '21' landed at Yugoslav partisan airstrip at Zadar, Croatia on 28 February 1945.

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