B-24 Liberator (bomber)

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The B-24 Liberator bomber aircraft was a Second World War U.S. heavy bomber. It was comparable to the B-17 Flying Fortress, with different tradeoffs: the B-24 had greater range but less defensive armament.

An effort to knock out the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania, which provided a third of Nazi oil, cost 54 out of 177 B-24 Liberators. The B-24 had longer range, but less defensive armament, than the B-17. However, the daring raid at very low level (100 to 300 feet) destroyed 40% of Ploesti's capacity. German repair crews made unexpectedly speedy repairs.[1]

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  1. ↑ Jay A. Stout, Fortress Ploesti: The Campaign to Destroy Hitler's Oil (2003) excerpt and online search
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