The Ford team found it would need 5 miles of wire, cut into almost 3,000 pieces ranging in length from 8 inches to 32 feet, for a B-24. The ... with a four-engine Liberator bomber was like ...

Ralph Bode flew as a tail gunner on a B-24-H Liberator. Eighty years ago, on Sept. 27, 1944, Bode died at age 20 when his aircraft was shot down over Kassel, Germany. Three people on his bomber ...