By the time World War II came to an end, the ATC operated more than 3,700 aircraft with 209,000 military and 104,000 civilian personnel. The war effort could have been very different had these ...

The war heated up, and so did production of the B-24. The H and J models arrived with no fewer than 10 .50-caliber machine guns and a maximum bomb load of about 8,000 pounds.