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Following its recent transfer, restoration work is now underway on a rare B-24 Liberator at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force. The project will preserve one of World War II\u2019s most important bombers and ultimately display it alongside the museum\u2019s iconic B-17. 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