Follow up to the Bomber photos - it was Witchcraft

Witchcraft, B-24 bomber. Photo by Jerry Pickard.

Photographer and reporter Jerry Pickard has a follow up to his photos of the WW II bomber over the Shoreline Arts Festival (see previous article)

By Jerry Pickard

A follow up on the B-24 Liberator pictures. I was reading my August issue of Flight Journal and to my surprise, when I got to the centerfold section of the issue, there it was, the plane I had photographed at the Shoreline Arts Festival.

There are only two B-24's left in the world that are airworthy. "WITCHCRAFT" which I photographed, is owned by The Collings Foundation. It's USAAF serial number was 44-44052. It is currently painted to represent the B-24H of the 790th Bomber Squadron, 467th Bomb Group, 8th Air Force which was based at Rackheath, England. 

Flight Journal states that Witchcraft survived 130 missions with no early returns or injured or killed crewmembers between April of 1944 and June of 1945.