Good afternoon, I am trying to figure out what plane my Grandfather flew on as part of a crew in the Pacific in WW2. This stems from a particular story he told me years ago.

Here is what I have been able to narrow it down: He was part of a crew (he was not a pilot) of more than just 2 or 3, so that rules out any of the "fighter" planes. Based on the story (which I'll get to) it definitely was not a B-17 or B-29 (and he never once mentioned flying on fortresses). From there it looks like the B-24, B-25 and B-26 were all used in the Pacific Theatre. The plane he was on was capable of doing bombing runs on land targets as well as torpedo (or bombing?) runs on ships. I've tried poking around but I am having a hard time pinning it down.

The story is that of his crew getting "in trouble" for not following an assignment. They left the base they were at and 2 bombing groups went out. 1 was to target an island and 1 was to target Japanese ships. My grandfather's plane was to target the ship(s). He said his plane was maybe 6th or 7th in line to go for the ships. They watched the first 4 or 5 planes do as ordered - drop their torpedo/bomb - bank hard right and return due to the anti-air systems to the left of wherever the ships were. But when these planes banked right they opened up their wings and belly to the ships gunners and got shredded to shit. So my grandfathers plane and either the plane in front of or behind them decided to "buzz" the ship - drop their torpedo's / bombs - and then fly as fast as possible right over the ship as to not open themselves up and get shredded. Only 2 planes returned from that trip and as I was told they got in significant trouble for not following the order/plan. So I'm not sure which one of those 3 planes (or maybe I'm already way off and its not one of those 3) would fit this "model" of mission and would be used this way. Not sure if this in any way helps narrowing down between the 3 planes or not.

Other than that I know he did very little combat trips as he was arriving in the pacific very close to end of the war. I also know he was assigned to whichever particular plane it was his entire "tour" in the Pacific. Its been a long time since he told me that story and hes been gone for 10 years now and I happened to be talking to someone about it and it got me curious as to the plane he actually was on.

Thanks for reading and hopefully someone can help me pin it down!