Osprey's examination of the B-24 Liberator Units' participation in World
War II (1939-1945). The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than
any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the
shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. Accounts of the
'Mighty Eighth' in Europe, and indeed many of the books and films that
emerged from the greatest air campaign in history, often overlook the
B-24, even though it was in action for as long as the Flying Fortress,
and participated in just as many perilous daylight bombing missions.