B-24 Liberator in Detail & Scale

This publication from Detail & Scale covers the history of the B-24 exhaustively in color photographs and illustrations.  Production of B-24s, including all variants, totaled 18,188 aircraft.  This is the largest number of any American aircraft of any type ever built, a record that will undoubtedly stand forever. The B-24 was also one of the most modified aircraft ever built for the U.S. military. Including the Navy's PB4Y-2 Privateer, no less than ten different versions were produced, and most of these had numerous variants depending on where they were built and how they were modified in the field. Following the Introduction, the Liberator History chapter summarizes the development and employment of the aircraft, beginning with the XB-24 prototype and continuing through the postwar use of the Liberator and Privateer.  The Liberator Variants chapter follows, and it takes a look at each variant and explains and illustrates the important changes made from one variant to the next, b