Comments by "Colonel K" (@Paladin1873) on "The Single Tail Liberators – Consolidated XB-24K-and-N" video.

Liberators were not well loved by their crews. They could not fly as high as a B-17, so had to suffer through more flak. Nor were they as rugged as the B-17. Pilots became fatigued while flying them, as you pointed out. And B-24 bases were further away from London than B-17 bases, so the B-17 crews were visited more often by war correspondents who showered them with praise. Lastly the B-17 (in my opinion) was more romantic and better looking than the B-24.
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I can believe it. A family friend had a similar experience in a B-17. He dropped a pencil and bent down to pick it up just as a Luftwaffe fighter riddled the spot were he had been sitting upright.
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@routier1642 Thanks for the insight. An old friend of mine was a B-24 waist gunner who ended up in Turkey after the Ploesti Raid. He didn't care for the B-24 either.
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