Consolidated B-24 Liberator

The Consolidated B-24 Liberatoris the ultimate look at the B-17's iconicstablemate from its origins on the drawing board to its emergence as America's preeminent blue-collar bomber. It chronicles the life of aviation legend Reuben Fleet, founder ofConsolidated Aircraft, alongside the design evolution of one of his greatestcreations. Some 19,000 Liberatorswere built between 1940 and 1945, primarily at Ford and Consolidated in theUnited States, and the aircraft remains the mostmass-produced bomber in history.Drawing on the document and photo collections at the NationalMuseum of the USAF, the Pima Air & Space Museum, the archives ofConsolidated Aircraft and the Ford Motor Company, and his own immensecollection of published and unpublished material, author Bill Wolf hasproduced the last word on the design, development, and manufacture of the ever-popular B-24.