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, between production blocks, and also the differences within a variant depending on which plant produced the aircraft.  Next comes the Liberator Details chapter with thirty-two pages containing 130 detail photographs and illustrations.  The PB4Y-2 Privateer is treated separately in the following chapter that includes more than forty additional detail photographs.

The book concludes with a Modelers Section that has been significantly expanded and updated to include new kit releases that have become available since the first publication on the B-24.  These include the 1/72nd scale kits from Hasegawa and the huge 1/32nd scale kits by HobbyBoss.