The B-24 was a 1930s-style airplane built with an aluminum skin that could be cut with a knife, carrying heavy loads far and fast, but with no refinements, making it difficult and exhausting to steer, with no windshield wipers, heat, or bathrooms, and crew members had to endure extreme cold, cramped conditions, and limited amenities, but the Liberator played a crucial role in the war, with over 18,300 planes produced, and the pilots and crews came from every state and territory in America, with most being young, fit, and eager to serve, and the strategic bombing campaign paralyzed the German army, bringing their train traffic to a halt and reducing them to a horse-drawn army.
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