B-24 Liberator In Action: Aircraft Number 80

Davis, Larry

ISBN 10: 0897471903 / ISBN 13: 9780897471909

Published by Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., Carrollton TX, 1987

About this Item

Illustrated covers with blue, yellow, black, and red printing; some soil; top layer of cover missing in a small area where label was removed; stapled. Previous owner's book label on front endpaper. 57 pp., b/w photos and illustrations, two-page section of color illustrations in center of book; clean, bright, unmarked. Seller Inventory # 002532

Bibliographic Details

Title: B-24 Liberator In Action: Aircraft Number 80

Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., Carrollton TX

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Soft cover

Illustrator: Perry Manley (illustrator); color by Don Greer

Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

Although much maligned by some historians when being compared to the B-17 Flying Fortress, the B-24 Liberator would prove itself in all theaters of operation. Indeed Eighth Air Force statistics show that the B-24 was more durable than the B-17; B-17 operational losses being 15.2% compared to B-24 operational losses of 13.3%. Aircrews had a better chance of surviving the war as a B-24 crew member. The formation of the Liberator Production Pool in early 1941 began a rather bizarre and extremely complicated aircraft designation system in which the Army Air Corps identified Liberators on the basis of the primary manufacturing facility or sub-assembly manufacturer. This makes the Production and designation of the B-24 difficult to follow in this volume. It would do the reader well to study the introductory chart.