Thread: Question about RAF 120 Coastal Command B-24D Liberator's
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Old 28th March 2011, 11:39
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Re: Question about RAF 120 Coastal Command B-24D Liberator's
If hunting U-boats they would carry depth charges. The British anti-submarine bomb was found to be inadequate early in the war.

They did not go to a "Hard-nose" but carried the guns in a pack under the forward bombbay. Only a comparatively small number were so modified. These were the short-nose Liberator Mk.Is/LB-30B/B-24As, and I can find 11 aircraft so modified from the AM910-929 serial range. No other Mk.Is were supplied, the unit's other aircraft being Mk.IIIs (B-24D) without a cannon pack.

There was a proposed 12-gun "turret" nose based on Martin-Baker's 12-gun nose for the Havoc, but this was cancelled before conversion began.
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