List of Consolidated B-24 Liberator operators

As RAAF Squadrons Nos 21, 23 and 24 equipped with Vultee Vengeance dive-bombers had just returned from New Guinea it was decided they should be the first ones to be re-equipped.

It was the only heavy bomber used in the Pacific by the RAAF and they operated from Australia, Morotai(East Indies) and Palawan (Philippines).

Following the Second World War, the RAF had been forced to dispose of a number of Consolidated B-24 Liberators in India which it had received from the United States under the terms of the Lend-Lease agreement.

321 Squadron RAF was formed from Dutch personnel of the Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service during World War II.

There were plans to form a squadron because of the large number of force-landed or crashed B-24s during the summer of 1944, but only three B-24Ds and one B-24J were made airworthy before King Michael's Coup.

Eleven B-24s made an emergency landing in Turkey coming from bombing of Ploesti within Operation Tidal Wave.

[5] The RAF was the first user as initial deliveries of B-24 Liberators to Royal Air Force were made in early 1941 and included some planes originally intended for France.

The RAF soon realized that B-24s were unsuitable for combat over Western Europe as they had insufficient defensive armament and lacked self-sealing fuel tanks.

By March 1941 200 B-24s were in service in the RAF, the ones assigned to Coastal Command were in many cases converted to a version with greatly increased range, wherein armor, and sometimes even turrets, were removed to compensate for installing additional fuel tanks.

They arrived about the same time as a big convoy was being organized to ferry supplies from Alexandria to Malta, and their first task was to help provide it with air cover.

Middle East based B-24s proved their value in August 1942, joining the air raids on Tobruk harbor, compelling the German Army to divert most supply columns to Benghazi.

In September USAAF and RAF B-24s started bombing Benghazi scoring several direct hits on supply ships.

RAF Coastal Command modified several B-24s for the anti-submarine role adding, an underwing searchlight, radar, and air-to-surface rockets.

The RAF also used many B-24s in the transport role, using a letter C in the name: The Liberator in North Africa campaign proved to be a better long-range bomber than the B-17 Flying Fortresses.

In contrast to their European performance, where General Doolittle refused to take on more B-24's in favor of B-17's for the 8th Air Force, they assisted in returning control of the various collection of Pacific islands back to Allied hands.