This pilot sought to avenge his brother’s death over the South Pacific

This pilot sought to avenge his brother’s death over the South Pacific

Of the many aircraft in which airmen fought their way to receive the Medal of Honor, alive or posthumously, only one flew the Consolidated PB4Y-1, a U.S. Navy variant of the B-24 Liberator. In contrast to its U.S. Army cousin, which bombed Axis industrial targets en masse over Europe during World War II, the Navy’s “Privateer” flew patrols over the Pacific in fours or less, often alone. It was on one of those lone forays that Bruce Van Voorhis r…