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==Notable B-24 crewmen==
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* [[Robert Altman]], film director, was a B-24 co-pilot, flying over 50 bombing missions in Borneo and the Dutch East Indies.
* [[William Charles Anderson]], author of ''BAT-21'' and ''Bomber Crew 369'', piloted Liberators based in Italy as a member of the 451st Bomb Group of the 15th AF.
* [[Chuck Bednarik]], NFL Hall of Fame member, former Philadelphia Eagle and the last full-time two-way player, served as a B-24 waist-gunner with the Eighth Air Force 467th Bomb Group. Bednarik participated in 30 combat missions over Germany as a S/Sgt and eventually attained the rank of First Lieutenant. Bednarik was awarded the Air Medal and four Oak Leaf Clusters, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal and four Battle Stars.
* [[Hal Clement]], science fiction author, was a pilot and copilot on B-24s and flew 35 combat missions over [[Europe]] with the 68th Bomb Squadron, [[44th Operations Group|44th Bomb Group]], based in England with [[Eighth Air Force]].
* [[Ernest K. Gann]], early airline pilot and author, flew C-87 Cargo Express aircraft in Southern Asia and China, including flying cargo over "The Hump". He detailed his flying experiences in ''[[Fate is the Hunter]]''.
* [[Don Herbert]], television pioneer "Mr. Wizard", flew 56 missions as a Liberator pilot over northern Italy, Germany, and Yugoslavia, winning the [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)|Distinguished Flying Cross]].
* [[Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.]], elder brother of future U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy]], was killed in [[Operation Aphrodite|Operation Anvil]] when his PB4Y-1 Liberator, modified to be a remote-controlled bomb, exploded in flight.
* [[Ben Kuroki]], top turret gunner, was the only [[Japanese-American]] in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] to serve in combat operations in the [[Pacific theater of World War II]].
* [[Walter Matthau]], actor, was a radioman and nose gunner in the 453rd Bomb Group<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1346306/Walter-Matthau.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1346306/Walter-Matthau.html |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Walter Matthau|access-date=September 21, 2017|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=July 3, 2000}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
* [[George McGovern]], U.S. Senator and 1972 presidential candidate, served as a B-24 pilot on his plane, ''Dakota Queen,'' in missions over Germany from Cerignola, Italy, as a member of the 455th Bomb Group of the [[Fifteenth Air Force]]. His wartime exploits and some of the characteristics of the B-24 are the focus of [[Stephen Ambrose]]'s book ''[[The Wild Blue]]''.
* Actor [[James Stewart|Jimmy Stewart]] flew B-24s as commanding officer of the 703rd Bomber Squadron, 445th Bombardment Group, out of [[RAF Tibenham]], UK. (He was later promoted to operations officer of the 453rd BG.) From 1943 to 1944, Stewart was credited with 20 combat missions as a pilot, including one over Berlin. Stewart flew several (possibly as many as 20) additional uncredited missions, filling in for pilots as duties and space would allow. Stewart's leadership qualities were highly regarded; the men who served under him praised his coolness under fire. He entered service as a private in early 1941 and rose to the rank of colonel by 1945.
* Flying Officer [[Lloyd Trigg]] VC (1914-1943), New Zealand pilot in the RNZAF, died during a successful attack on a German U-boat off West Africa. His medal was uniquely awarded solely on the recommendation of the enemy captain and other eyewitnesses.
* [[Stewart Udall]], author, conservationist, U.S. Representative, and Secretary of Interior, served as a waist gunner on a B-24 in 1944. He was based in Southern Italy; 15th Army AF, 454th Bombardment Group. His Liberator's nickname was "Flyin' Home". He is credited with 50 missions. The 454th received a Unit Citation for leading an attack on the Hermann Goering Steel Works in Linz, Austria on 25 July 1944. Udall's crew suffered one casualty on the mission. The dead crew member was serving at the waist-gunner position normally manned by Udall; by chance, the pilot assigned Udall to the nose gun for this mission, saving his life.
* [[Jim Wright]], former [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]], served as a B-24 bombardier in the Pacific. He recounted his experience in his book ''The Flying Circus: Pacific War&nbsp;– 1943&nbsp;– as Seen Through a Bombsight''.
* [[Louis Zamperini]], Olympic runner, and later war prisoner and hero, served as a bombardier on two B-24s. The first, "Super Man", was damaged, and the crew was assigned to B-24D "Green Hornet" to conduct search and rescue. On 27 May 1943, the aircraft crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Eight of the 11 crewmembers were killed. Zamperini, pilot Russell A. Phillips, and Francis McNamara survived the crash. Only Zamperini and Phillips survived their 47 days adrift on a life raft on the sea.<ref>Hillenbrand 2010{{page needed|date=December 2011}}</ref> Zamperini is the subject of two biographies and the 2014 film ''[[Unbroken (film)|Unbroken]]''.