The US Navy operated several B24 squadrons in the pacific.

PHOTO LIBERTORS –  The first model that their photo  squadrons flew was the PB4Y-1P. THe first US Navy photo squadron with LIBERATORS was VD-1, which was sent to the South Pacific in April 1943. The next photo squadron was VD-3. They were sent with six aircraft to the Central Pacific and ser up on Canton. They would at times stage through Baker Island.

VD -1 

VD-2

VD-4 (Navy Photographic Squadron 4) “Shutterbugs”   Stationed at Guam,

 

 

 

VP-5 (Navy Photographic Squadron 5) arrived on Guam 15-20 November 1944 to replace VD 4. They flew the photo/reconnaissance version of the PB4Y, the PB4Y-1P.

They started armed photo reconnaissance missions on 25 November 1944 in conjunction with the 22th Bombardment Group.

 

VP-1 (Navy Photographic Squadron 1) was replaced by VP-5 at Guam on 18 May 1945 

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The US Navy also operatied Liberators in their war against Japanese shipping. The were denoted as the VB squadrons which almost exclusively used low level bombing methods to attack the ships. They first fley the PB4Y -1. Later, the stretched and more capable PRIVATEER, PB4Y-2 came into the forward areas in January 1945 and replaced the aging LIBERATORS.

The first Navy squadron to receive a B24 LIBERATOR (PB4Y-1) was Bombing Squadron 101, VB-101.. They left for the South Pacific in January 1943. They came back to the US in August 1943 and were replaced by VB-104, the BUCCANEERS. 

VB-101

VB-102

 

VB-104 (VPB-104)

 

VB-108

 

VB-109 (VPB-109)

VPB-111

VPB-116

VPB-117 BLUE RAIDERS

VPB-118  The first Privateer squadron

VPB-123