Engineer and test pilot William Kenneth Ebel got airborne in the first B-26 Marauder with co-pilot Ed Fenimore and flight engineer Al Malewski on board. This twin-engine medium bomber was such an ...
He earned his wings in April 1944, later serving as a First Lieutenant in the Ninth Army Air Corps piloting a B-26 Medium Bomber. “We had a couple madmen in the world then,” said Long.