page_title: Liberty Belle (aircraft)
section_title: 42-40701
hierarchical_section_title: Liberty Belle (aircraft) / 42-40701
caption_attribution_description: English: B-24H-25-DT 42-51134 Liberty Belle, 466th BG - 784th BS
context_page_description: Liberty Belle was a popular moniker with over two dozen known individual Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberators using the name in combat during World War II.
  The combat Liberty Belles were commemorated by two B-17s which used the name, with one still remaining as a static display: Miss Liberty Belle is displayed at the Grissom Air Museum. The Liberty Foundation flew a composite B-17 named Liberty Belle
context_section_description: The Liberty Belle (42-40701), a B-24D, was a member of the 389th Bombardment Group, 412th Bombardment Squadron. For unknown reasons on 14 July 1943, two crew bailed out over Sicily but the plane landed safely. Both men were killed in action (KIA). Finally on 21 September 1943 it crash landed at Bizerte Airfield, Tunisia and was abandoned there, later being condemned 4 October 1943.
caption: Liberty Belle, #42-51134 - Nose art of the B-24H of the 466th Bomb Group, 784th Bomb Squadron, (American Air Museum in Britain)
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