B-24 Liberator Photographs | World War II Database

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B-24D Liberator lead assembly ship 'Barber Bob' of 93rd Bomber Group, US 328th Bomber Squadron based at Terria, Libya, Jul-Aug 1943	PB4Y-1 Liberator from a US Navy patrol squadron based in the United Kingdom in flight, Aug 1943. Photo 1 of 2.	PB4Y-1 Liberator from a US Navy patrol squadron based in the United Kingdom in flight, Aug 1943. Photo 2 of 2.	Royal Air Force Liberator Mark IIIs of No. 120 & No. 86 Squadrons lined up at Aldergrove, Northern Ireland, circa 1943. Note the ASV Mark II anti-submarine radar antennae.

US VIPs touring 14th Air Force bases in China, Aug 1943. Note the C-87A aircraft, the transport variant of the B-24 Liberator. See Comment below.	2nd wave of B-24 Liberators approach the Ploesti oil refineries, Ploesti Romania, Aug 1 1943. 14 B-24s can be seen in this image.	B-24 Liberator bombers over Ploesti oil fields during Operation Tidal Wave, Romania, 1 Aug 1943.	B-24 Liberator during low level attack of the Ploesti oil refineries, Ploesti Romania, Aug 1 1943.

B-24D Liberator “The Sandman” of the 345th Bomb Squadron over the burning Astra Romania oil refinery in Ploesti, Romania during Operation Tidal Wave, Aug 1 1943.	Col Leon W Johnson points to scoreboard of B-24 Liberator “Victory Ship” as LGen Jacob L Devers and LGen Ira C Eaker look on, RAF Shipdham, Norfolk, England, UK, Nov 22 1943. The horizontal bomb represents the low level attack on Ploesti, Aug 1 1943	Smoke rises from the Astra Romana refinery in Ploesti Romania following low level bombing attack by B-24 Liberators, Aug 1 1943.	B-24 Liberator of the 43rd Bomb Group during a bombing run over the major Japanese base at Salamaua, Australian New Guinea, Aug 13, 1943.

B-24 Liberator 'Rapid Robin' of the 431st Bomb Squadron parked under camouflage netting at Bellows Field, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, Aug or Sep 1943	B-24D Liberator “Chug-A-Lug” of the 308th Bomb Group ready for take-off from the Kwanghan Airfield, Kwanghan (now Guanghan), China, Jun-Sep 1943	PB4Y-1 Liberator from US Navy Patrol Squadron VP-114 on the ramp at Norfolk, Virginia, United States, circa Aug 1943.	Army MGen Maxwell Murray and VAdm Aubrey Fitch at the Luganville Airfield at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides awaiting first lady Eleanor Roosevelt on her tour of the South Pacific on behalf of the Red Cross, 14 Sep 1943.

First lady Eleanor Roosevelt upon arrival at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides during her tour of the South Pacific on behalf of the Red Cross, 14 Sep 1943. She is flanked by VAdm Aubrey Fitch and MGen Maxwell Murray.	First lady Eleanor Roosevelt, center, upon arrival at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides during her tour of the South Pacific on behalf of the Red Cross, 14 Sep 1943. Vice-Admiral Aubrey Fitch is to her left.	B-24 Liberator bomber raiding the Japanese airfields at Cape Gloucester, New Britain in preparation of the American invasion, Oct 1943	B-24J Liberator with the 90th Bomb Group, the Jolly Rogers, at Port Moresby, New Guinea, 1943.