The b-24 wasn't as pretty as the b-17 but it did a lot of butt kikkin, I read a story of a raid on the Ploesti oil fields that was almost a total disaster because several squadrons timing was off and caused them to meet from different directions over the oil field some as low as 100 feet while dropping bombs. I bet the pucker factor was in high gear. all in ugly all the 24 did one hell of a good job. some say it was a better bird than the b-17.