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  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Liberal Army Airfield

Liberal Army Airfield

Hook-Gray, Lidia
Gray-Bowman, Connie

Paperback

Series: Images of Aviation

AviationGeneral PhotographyRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 1467162280
ISBN13: 9781467162289
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Published: May 20 2025
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

The southwest corner of Kansas was once home to Liberal Army Airfield. For 27 months, from April 1943 to September 1945, the desolate plains of Kansas were alive with the deep throaty roar of the B-24 Liberator.

The Liberal Army Airfield trained approximately one-quarter of all B-24 commanders. Residents of the area recall few days and nights in which they did not hear the familiar roar of the big Pratt & Whitney engines flying overhead. What was once a wheat field, a symbol of peace, became thousands of feet of concrete runways used to train pilots for vital World War II missions. To this day, many of the runways and structures of the base still survive. Years have passed since the inception and closure of the base, but its history will always be a part of Liberal, Kansas.

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