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In 1944, a U.S. Army Corps B-24 bomber crashed near the top of Humphreys Peak in Arizona. Here's what we know about the crash and how to get to the site.
Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Leon Crane was co-piloting a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber when an engine malfunctioned and it crashed ...
Shigeaki Mori, a survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing, was on hand recently to help unveil a plaque in the rural Japanese town of Ikachi, near Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, to commemorate the ...
This October 2017 photo shows wreckage of the B-24 Liberator bomber, Heaven Can Wait, lying on the seafloor where it went down during World War II in Hansa Bay, Papua, New Guinea.
A popular crash site, holding the wreckage from a fallen B-24 Liberator Bomber, is located close to Humphreys Peak in Arizona. Although the hike to the wreckage is moderately difficult, most ...
This October 2017 photo shows wreckage of the B-24 Liberator bomber, Heaven Can Wait, lying on the seafloor where it went down during World War II in Hansa Bay, Papua, New Guinea.
Zamperini's dream of participating in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics was thwarted by World War II. The games were canceled and he ...
Lt. Stuart Cooper participated in the Battle of Midway, rescuing a downed B-24 crew. Cooper's plane was shot down during the "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre" in 1943, and his remains were never ...
He was officially accounted for in November of 2024 after researchers were able to use dental records and DNA analysis to identify Lt. Hymes’ remains.
At the age of 22, 2Lt. Milton Leonard Hymes, Jr. of Savannah was killed in a B-24J Liberator crash over Nazi-occupied Poland, ...