The Douglas A-26 entered the Second World War at a relatively late date the first eighteen examples were in fact sent to the European front in the summer of 1944 However shortly afterwards the Invader demonstrated its worth & on the cease fire the troops equipped with these planes had flown more than 11 000 missions Also in the Pacific in only a few months the Invader consolidated its fame as the crew s favourite bomber After a short period of time the A-26 found itself fighting again in Vietnam It then became the average standard bomber of the USAF used in the War in Korea It was in this conflict that the A-26C variant was more widely used characterised by P[&]W R-2800-27 engines & a glass nose which contained the Norden bombsight Many examples were successively supplied to smaller air forces which kept them in service until the middle of the 70 s