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joet5 joet5atoptonline.net wrote:

On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 06:52:38 -0500, Milton Lewis
wrote:

Orval Fairbairn wrote:
In article ,
Joseph Testagrose wrote:

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"Commando" was Winston Churchill's personal airplane.
Didn't the Brits make any distinction between the Liberator and the
Privateer? This is clearly a Privateer.
No.

According to "American Combat Planes," The single tail was approved in
April 1944 for all future Liberators, but of 5176 single-tailed B-24Ns
ordered from Ford, only November 1944's XB-24N and seven YB-24s of
May-June 1945 were completed. These ships had R-1830-75 Wasps and new
nose and tail turrets."

Re the PB4Y-2 single-tail Privateer:

"Delivery began in March 1944 and 710 more Privateers were ordered on
October 19. Cancellations, however, ended PB4Y-2 production in October
1945 after 740 were completed."

Wsa "Commando" a Privateer or a Liberator or a modified hybrid? I am
sure that AAF and Navy versions had some equipment differences, as did
the British versions.