In this video, we talk about the Douglas A-26 Invader, a bomber and ground attacker made during World War 2 that was designed to be a high performance, multirole attacker. We first look at its sort-of predecessor in the Douglas A-20 Havoc and its early performance in the beginning stages of WW2 and how the A-26 improved over that. We look at its fantastic performance in testing and how much the test pilot adored it. We look at all three initial prototypes and where they differed, and which of these prototypes "won".

We then talk about the first A-26's sent overseas into the Pacific, and how pilots there absolutely hated them for one specific reason. We look at how DOuglas fixed this in the short term and in the long term, and how the long term solution led to the A-26 being a fantastic plane. We lastly look at the usage of the A-26 after WW2, being renamed to the B-26, and seeing combat in the Korean War, Vietnam War, Bay of Pigs, Laotian Civil War, and various smaller conflicts.