T Bolt
Colonel
Here's what I came up with:
42-6976/7005 Ford B-24E-1-FO Liberator
So that means that the bomber was made at the Ford plant at Willow run Michigan. He may have taken the picture at a modification center somewhere else.
A lot of those early B-24s were flown from the factory right to modification centers to have the greenhouse glass nose replaced with a nose turret. My father flew on B-24s quite a bit, as a gunnery instructor in the states, then 13 combat missions with the 8th then 15th Airforce before ending up as a P.O.W. He told me he didn't have much use for the Ford made B-24s. He said there were a lot of quality control issues with them, including one that was missing the gun interrupter cam in the top turret causing the training crew to nearly shoot off the tail.
42-6976/7005 Ford B-24E-1-FO Liberator
So that means that the bomber was made at the Ford plant at Willow run Michigan. He may have taken the picture at a modification center somewhere else.
A lot of those early B-24s were flown from the factory right to modification centers to have the greenhouse glass nose replaced with a nose turret. My father flew on B-24s quite a bit, as a gunnery instructor in the states, then 13 combat missions with the 8th then 15th Airforce before ending up as a P.O.W. He told me he didn't have much use for the Ford made B-24s. He said there were a lot of quality control issues with them, including one that was missing the gun interrupter cam in the top turret causing the training crew to nearly shoot off the tail.
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