To mark the beginning of the next 50 titles in this wonderful series, we decided to throw caution to the wind and enter into the desperately complicated world of USAAF subjects.
Not only that, we decided to start with the most complicated of them all, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, or the Consolidated Mess as it is nicknamed amongst authors!
Working mainly from the late Mike Bailey’s photo collection, our new author Dave Pratt has put together this superb set of images to hopefully simplify the story of the ‘D’ in 8th AF service for both modellers and historians alike. We’ve tried to make it as faithful to the WPA format as possible, with plenty of detail photos, and ABCs and arrows pointing out the various mods along the way.
Surprisingly (for us anyway), there were comparatively few ‘D’s that flew with the 8th AF, so you can see many airframes in this book in multiple photos, showing the development of their markings over time. This by itself, is fascinating to see.
