Built in December 1942 at San Diego, this USAAF Liberator was attacked by a Luftwaffe fighter during a 98th BG 'Pyramiders' raid over the Astro Romano oil refinery in Romania on 1st Aug 1943. Badly damaged, the crew headed for their base at Benghazi but one by one the engines failed and even their attempt to reach Cyprus was not attainable. The B-24 was ditched in the sea off Antalya, and although three crew members including the pilot Lt Hadley were lost, seven were able to swim ashore. Salvaged in 1995

KH166 at the Convair Modification Centre prior to its delivery flight to the United Kingdom. KH166 was destined for service with 357 Squadron on special duties in the Far East. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

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

Used as a trials aircraft throughout World War II, Sold as scrap in 1947. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

The first of a batch of 20 B-24As diverted to the RAF in exchange for 20 LB-30 transports the USAAF wanted. AM910 sent for trials at Boscombe Down before being allocated to 120 Sqn for U-boat patrols. Crashed on landing at Nutts Corner, Northern Ireland, on April 13, 1942. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

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Delivery flight. 511 Sqn then sent to India with 232 Sqn. Struck off charge in November 1946. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

FK122 at Prestwick for servicing by Scottish Aviation. It had arrived in the UK in June 1942 and initially loaned to BOAC for training B-24 transport crews. FK122 went on to Nos. 120 and 86 Squadrons and finally with No.1332 Conversion Unit. Struck off charge in January 1946. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

While no location is given, KG984 was delivered to Prestwick from Dorval, Canada in August 1944. In September 1945 it was converted to a transport, Struck off charge in November 1947. Photo from: Imperial War Museums

Delivered to the USAAF as 44-44175 then transferred to the RAF as KH304 in 1944. To the Indian Air Force as HE877 in 1946. Registered as N7866 in 1969 for a ferry flight from Poona, India to Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ for the museum.

Diamond Lil on chocks for overhaul in the Commemorative Air Force hangar. The nose art with her name is on the other side and the badge on the rear fuselage reads 'The Air Transport Command - U.S. Army Air Forces'. The data block on port side gives 'U.S. Army B-24A, Air Corps Serial No. 40-2366'. She was assigned this ID initially but not taken up by the army and went to the RAF instead.

Carries markings of CAF and Consolidated B-24 Liberator under starboard horizontal stabilizer. Shows "N12905" on port vertical stabilizer, and "2905" on starboard vertical stabilizer. Painted in colors for 98th BG.

Built at Willow Run as 44-50206 on 5 Dec 44, this B-24L was ferried under Lend-Lease from Montreal to Bamrauli in June 1945. Received by Air Command SEA, it was sent to No. 99 (Madras Presidency) Sqn at Dhubalia. Detached to Cocos Is, the B-24 made shipping strikes, bombing runs and SAR to Java, Sumatra and Burma. At the end of the war RAF B-24s were dumped at Chakeri. Refurbished by HAL and flown by the RIAF, the bombers equipped No. 5, 6 and 16 Sqn. The IAF was the last and longest user of the B-24 from 1948-68. This B-24L HE807 from No. 6 Sqn "Dragons" was donated to the RAFM in 1974.

Diamond Lil undergoing extensive restoration in the CAF hangar, in which the rudders, ailerons, and elevators will have their fabric replaced. The CAF decided that this was a good time to also replace the flight control cables that connect the pilot's yokes and rudder pedals to those control surfaces. The work was expected to take at least five months.

One of 31 aircraft on display at the Lackland parade field. For 43 years (since 1956) the museum had the real B-24M 43-51228 on display, the last B-24 on active service in the USAF, but in June 1999 it was traded with the American Air Museum and shipped to Duxford, UK. At Lackland the Liberator was replaced by this full-scale replica of B-24M 43-51228 "The Blasted Event". It carries no serial.

First delivered to the USAAF as 44-44175 in September 1944, this B-24 was passed straight on to the RAF as Liberator GR.VI KH304 that November. The British abandoned many Liberators in India at the end of the war, India putting several back into service after independence and using them until the late 1960s. After storage at Chakeri this aircraft was assigned the serial HE877 by the Indian AF in 1948. In March 1969 it was ferried from Poona to Tucson via the UK. Now displayed with Indian markings on the right side, with the left in the 1944 colours of the 446th BG, Bungay, Suffolk, England.