Intended to be Winston Churchill's personal aircraft but he preferred the Avro York. AL504 was lost near the Azores on March 27, 1945 while crossing the Atlantic from the UK to Canada. Some floating debris located but there was no trace of the seven crew and seven VIP passengers. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

At a London airfield, exiled Dutch Queen Wilhelmina greets her daughter Juliana who returns from her safe house in Canada, VVIP enough to use Churchill's personal Liberator. Commando had a bed and a galley installed. It was converted with a PB4Y-2 Privateer single tailfin and a solid nose earlier in 1944. The aircraft was lost without trace in the Atlantic on 27 March 1945. Photo from: Nationaal Archief (Netherlands)