The B-24 was the only bomber with the range and firepower to ... Leon Johnson, commander of the 44th Bomb Group, of the attack on Ploesti. "It's indescribable to anyone who wasn't there." ...

A first lieutenant and navigator of a B-24 bomber in the United States Air Force, Plumb’s a graduate of Syracuse University, where he attended on the GI Bill. He retired from the New York City ...