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From: jfb@usgp1.ih.att.com (Joe Baugher)
Subject: Bomber Series--Consolidated B-24 Liberator (24 of ??)
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Summary: XB-24P
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The XB-24P-CO was a B-24D (serial number 42-40344) modified by Sperry 
Gyroscope Co. in July of 1945 for airborne fire control system 
research.  Only one such modification was carried out.  

Sources:

    Famous Bombers of the Second World War, William Green, 
    Doubleday, 1959.

    Liberator: America's Global Bomber, Alwyn T. Lloyd,
    Pictorial Histories Publishing Co, Inc, 1993.

    General Dynamics Aircraft and Their Predecesssors, John Wegg,
    Naval Institute Press, 1990.


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