Editing Consolidated B-32 Dominator (section)

{{Short description|American heavy bomber}}
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{{Infobox aircraft
 |name= B-32 Dominator
 |image= File:B32.jpg 
 |caption= Consolidated B-32-1-CF, the first B-32 built after modification to Block 20 standard.
 |type= Heavy [[strategic bomber]]
 |national_origin= United States
 |manufacturer= [[Consolidated Aircraft]]
 |first_flight= 7 September 1942
 |introduction= 27 January 1945
 |retired= 30 August 1945
 |status= 
 |primary_user= [[United States Army Air Forces]]
 |more_users=
 |produced= 1944–1945
 |number_built= 118
 |unit cost=
 |variants=
 |developed_from=[[Consolidated B-24 Liberator]]
}}

The '''Consolidated B-32 Dominator''' ('''Consolidated Model 34''') was an American heavy [[strategic bomber]] built for the [[United States Army Air Forces]] during [[World War II]]. A B-32 was involved in the last air combat engagement of the war, resulting in the war's last American air combat death. It was developed by [[Consolidated Aircraft]] in parallel with the [[Boeing B-29 Superfortress]] as a fallback design should the B-29 prove unsuccessful.<ref name="Jones p. 106">Jones 1974, p. 106.</ref> The B-32 reached units in the [[Asiatic-Pacific Theater|Pacific]] only in mid-May 1945, and subsequently saw only limited combat operations against Japanese targets before the end of the war on 2 September 1945. Most of the extant orders of the B-32 were canceled shortly thereafter and only 118 B-32 airframes of all types were built.