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Convair PB4Y-2/ P4Y-2 Privateer by Nicholas A. Veronico and Steve Ginter, Specialty Press, North Branch, Minn., 2012, $49.95 The Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer is one of those great warplanes we all know but would like to know more about. A naval derivative of the B-24 Liberator, it had a lengthened fuselage to accommodate a flight engineer’s …
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