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This chapter tells how Tim Caza and John McLaughlin, a retired volunteer fire chief and body-recovery diver tried to reach a B-24 Liberator bomber that had vanished with a crew of eight after taking off from the Westover Army base in Massachusetts at the height of the Second World War. “The Twenty-Four” was last heard circling low over Oswego County in a snowstorm in the early morning hours of February 18, 1944. The chapter recounts that for seventy-four years, it had defied searches from the Adirondack Mountains to the depths of Lake Ontario, first by the US military, later by recreational divers, and, in an apparent attempt to exhaust all possibilities, a group of dowsers and mystics enlisted by private parties to channel the aircraft's whereabouts. The Liberator is fabulous both for what it was and what it represents. Engineered by Consolidated Aircraft under urgent deadlines for a war where, for the first time in history, air supremacy was counted as a deciding factor, the chapter underlines that Liberator could go farther, faster, with more payload than other bombers of its day—attributes that would carry the fight in Europe and the Pacific well behind enemy lines. The chapter emphasizes that the plane's capabilities were unique, though its legacy ultimately rests with an unprecedented manufacturing feat.
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