This revised and expanded second edition covers USN and USMC
squadrons that operated the Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy
bomber as the PB4Y-1 in the Pacific from early 1943 through
September 1944 in the Central Pacific. Combat air crews consisted
of eleven young men typically ages 18 to 26 led by a patrol plane
commander in his early to mid-twenties. They flew alone on
single-plane patrols often lasting ten or more hours. Alone on
patrol there were no witnesses when an aircraft failed to return to
base; they simply vanished, leaving little if any clues about their
fate. Other aircrews sent to look for the missing would
occasionally spot a deflated life raft floating or dye marker
spreading across the waterevidence marking where a four-engine
bomber and its crew had gone down.
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