The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer is a World War II and Korean War era US Navy patrol bomber that evolved from the Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The Navy used unmodified B-24s as the PB4Y-1 Liberator.
In the years of Cold War, the usual crossroads of the International spying was the Baltic Sea, a narrow part of sea overlooking the Soviet Union, DDR and Poland for Warsaw’s Pact side, West Germany, ...
The last flying PB4Y-2 Privateer -- the Navy's version of the U.S. Army Air Corp's World War II-era B-24 Liberator heavy bomber -- is in the Coachella Valley for a week-long layover at the Palm ...
PB4Y-2 Air Tanker 127, N6884C, at the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting, Greybull, WY, May 26, 2014. Photo by Bill Gabbert. In our continuing series of looking back at photos of historic air ...
PB4Y-2 Air Tanker 121, N2871G, at Hemet, California, September 15, 1979. Photo by JD Davis. Anyone know the story of the polka dots? In our continuing series of looking back at photos of historic air ...
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The Other Flying Fortress You Haven't Heard About
On a crisp morning in April 1950, the engines of the PB4Y-2 Privateer, nicknamed the Turbulent Turtle, roared to life on a runway of Wiesbaden, West Germany. This aircraft, a veteran of World War 2's ...
The planes, known respectively as the PB4Y-1 AND BQ-7, took off with a two-man crew, who would fly the plane to 2,000 feet and set a course for V-1 launch sites in France before bailing out. Though ...
The Consolidated B-32 Dominator bomber was the last US Army Air Forces (USAAF) four-engine heavy bomber to enter service and the last in combat during World War II. In many ways, it was similar to the ...
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