I chose the B26 for two reasons. It served from early in the war to the end and was reportedly the most survivable bomber in the ETO. The main reason I chose it was it's sleek looks. As a child, just as the war broke out, I had a little fat book entitled "Pilot Pete and His Dive Bomber." The plane in the book was the B26, not indentified as such and it was obviously not a dive bomber. You could flip the pages with a thumb and get action pictures ( sort of) and I was quite taken with the look of the AC and the exploits of Pilot Pete.