Editing Consolidated B-24 Liberator (section)

===Luftwaffe use===
Three B-24s were captured and then operated by the German secret operations unit [[Kampfgeschwader 200|KG 200]], which also tested, evaluated and sometimes clandestinely operated captured enemy aircraft during World War II.<ref>Gilman and Clive 1978, p. 314.</ref>

One of these was captured at Venegono, Italy, on 29 March 1944. It was used on penetration missions in RAF bomber streams at night in Luftwaffe markings. On a ferry flight from Hildesheim to Bavaria on 6 April 1945, it was shot down – by German anti-aircraft fire.

Crashed B-24s were the source of the landing gear units for the strictly experimental [[Junkers Ju 287]] V1 first prototype jet bomber airframe in 1945.