Notable Appearances in Media
- The book One Damned Island After Another (1946) contains the official history of the 7th Bomber Command of the Seventh Air Force. It describes B-24 operations in the Central Pacific. B-24s from the Seventh Air Force were the first B-24s to bomb the Japanese home islands.
- The novel Face of a Hero (1950) tells the story of a B-24 crew operating from an airport in Puglia, Italy in 1944; it is based on the real experiences of its author, Louis Falstein, who had been a tail gunner on a USAAF B-24. The novel describes in detail the raids of the B-24 bombers on Romania, Yougoslavia, northern Italy, Southern France and Germany.
- The story of the "Lady Be Good" inspired a television movie titled The Sole Survivor (1970 film), with a North American B-25 Mitchell playing the B-24D role.
- In the young adult novel Under a War-Torn Sky, the main character Henry Forester co-pilots Out of the Blue, a U.S. B-24 Liberator serving in the Royal Air Force.
- In the video game Call of Duty: Big Red One, one of the levels includes using the various turrets and the bomb-sight in a B-24 Liberator.
- The B-24 is featured in the classic novel Goodbye to Some by Gordon Forbes, a former pilot, who seems to know the foibles of the aircraft. Of special note is the characteristic "siphoning" during flight of fuel from the tanks in the wings, caused by a venturi effect of air passing over the wings, sometimes resulting in a mid-air explosion of the aircraft.
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand (2010). The story of Louis Zamperini who flew in a B-24D; and how he survived crashing in the Pacific, set adrift for 47 days in the Pacific, and more than two years in Japanese POW camps.
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