Author Topic: b24 with rockets (Read 576 times)

SELECTOR · « **on:** July 08, 2005, 02:21:05 PM »

saw a pic today in a mag.. the pic was a b24 with 6 rockets mounted on pylons just aft of the nose.. the caption said it was a sub hunter b24..
anyone have any information about this plane config?

left the mag at work, if i remembe ri will bring it home tomorrow and postr pic.

Furball · « **Reply #1 on:** July 08, 2005, 02:43:24 PM »

Some RAF coastal command libby's (mk V's i think) could carry 8 x rocket projectiles.

frank3 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 09, 2005, 05:22:09 AM »

Maybe it was a Privateer?

SELECTOR · « **Reply #3 on:** July 09, 2005, 02:35:33 PM »

no its a b24 i assure you...

Raptor · « **Reply #4 on:** July 09, 2005, 09:14:56 PM »

More than likely it was a PB4Y-1. The PB4Y-1 is the navy version of the B-24 Liberator.
The PB4Y-2 Privateer was a development of the late single-tail B-24N Liberator

MiloMorai · « **Reply #5 on:** July 09, 2005, 11:01:20 PM »

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Originally posted by Furball
Some RAF coastal command libby's (mk V's i think) could carry 8 x rocket projectiles.

A few Liberator IIIs(GR V) were fitted with a special airfoil winglet attached to either side of the lower forward fuselage below the cockpit. These removable winglets carried eight 5-inch High Velocity Aircraft Rockets (HVAR) for attacking surfaced German submarines.

Baugher

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #6 on:** July 09, 2005, 11:16:26 PM »

The all Czech No. 311 Squadron of the RAF Coastal Command flew some of their B-24s with rockets. Some of them were equipped with 4 5-inch rockets mounted in airfoil shaped mounts forward of the bomb bay. No. 311 Squadron even reported at least 1 U-boat sunk by these rockets.

ack-ack