Word: liberatore
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A four-motored Liberator transport of Consairway (Consolidated Vultee's air-transport division) flew from the U.S. to Australia & back in 3 days 22 hr. 10 min., clipping an hour from the previous record. Flight time two years ago: nine days.
Iron Mike. On a raid over Germany a B-24 Liberator was so badly hit by flak that the crew bailed out. Then the empty, staggering bomber perked up, flew a straight and level course for 150 miles, finally crashed off the English coast barely ten miles from her home...
For the benefit of other civilians, I forward a message to us all from a letter written by an A.A.F. captain now flying a Liberator in the Central Pacific; he wears the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster:
Said a Liberator group commander: "We were simply blown off our course.... We are terribly sorry that it happened." The regret was genuine, for the Eighth Air Force knows that many a U.S. airman is alive today because he could come down in hospitable Switzerland instead of being shot down...
In the Pacific, U.S. air power thundered through the islands. Land-based Liberators bombed Truk for the first time. Long-range, Aleutian-based Army and Navy planes pecked at the Kuriles. One lone Army Liberator swung past Paramushiro all the way to Matsuwa, 1,100 miles north of Tokyo.