Editing Consolidated B-24 Liberator (section)

==Notable appearances in media==
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{{Main|Aircraft in fiction#B-24 Liberator}}
* The book ''One Damned Island After Another'' (1946) contains the official history of the 7th Bomber Command of the [[Seventh Air Force]]. It describes B-24 operations in the Central Pacific. B-24s from the Seventh Air Force were the first B-24s to bomb the Japanese home islands.
* Authors Cassius Mullen and Betty Byron wrote the story of the first American heavy bomber crew to complete a 25-mission combat tour in the European Theater during World War II. The book ''Before the Belle'' (2015) tells the story of Capt Robert Shannon and his aircraft, which completed a combat tour only to be lost in an accident while transporting Lt Gen [[Frank Maxwell Andrews]] back to Washington on 3 May 1943.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Cassius|last1=Mullen|first2=Betty|last2=Byron|title=Before the Belle|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IwmCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT284|year=2015|publisher=Page Publishing Inc|isbn=978-1-68213-622-5}}</ref>
* Laura Hillenbrand's ''[[Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption]]'' (2010) tells the story of B-24D bombardier [[Louis Zamperini]] and how he survived crashing in the Pacific, being adrift on the ocean for 47 days, and then more than two years in Japanese POW camps.<ref>Margolick, David. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/books/review/Margolick-t.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 "Zamperini’s War."] ''The New York Times,'' 19 November 2010.</ref>
* ''Damnyankee: A WWII Story of Tragedy and Survival off the West of Ireland'' by Thomas L. Walsh (2009) tells the story of a US Navy PB4Y-1 (B-24 Liberator) submarine patrol bomber that ditched off the west coast of Ireland in 1944; five of the ten crew survived 33 hours adrift in a seething North Atlantic storm before drifting ashore in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Damnyankee-Story-Tragedy-Survival-Ireland/dp/1432729101 "'Damnyankee'."] ''amazon.com''. Retrieved: 4 February 2013.</ref>
* ''[[The Sinking of the Laconia]]'' depicts the [[Laconia Incident]] and a B-24's attempts to sink the {{GS|U-156|1941|6}}.
* ''Shady Lady: Mission Accomplished, Running on Empty'' (2012) tells the true story of the USAAF's B-24D ''Shady Lady,''. It was one of 11 planes that took off from [[Darwin, Australia]], on Friday, 13 August 1943, to bomb a Japanese oil refinery at Balikpapan, Borneo, a distance of more than 1,300 miles. This mission was the longest overwater bombing mission up to that time.<ref>[http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-24/42-40369.html  "B-24D-53-CO "Shady Lady" Serial Number 42-40369"]. ''pacificwrecks.com''. Retrieved: 26 June 2016.</ref>