And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, December 10, 2021
US Navy PB4Y-1 Liberator patrol bomber flying over the Pacific, 1944-45
The PB4Y-2 was essentially a B-24N with it's single tail and was six feet longer. It only had two more 50's than a B-24. Any airplane that got the job done and got them home was "a better airplane".
A very good patrol bomber. The PB4Y-2 was even better, as it was loaded for bear, with six power turrets with 2 fifty caliber machine guns in each.
ReplyDeleteThe PB4Y-2 was essentially a B-24N with it's single tail and was six feet longer. It only had two more 50's than a B-24. Any airplane that got the job done and got them home was "a better airplane".
DeleteThat's a lot of wingspan
ReplyDeleteThe also substituted depth charges for bombs.
ReplyDeleteThe usual contact report was "Sub sighted. Sunk same. Continuing patrol."