Kind of a butt-ugly plane, but hey, they were trying to build everything and anything in that day.
They built B-32’s in case the B-29 didn’t work out. General Kenney wanted to get his hands on some B-29’s for his bomber groups, but they were all earmarked for the 8th and 20th Air Forces. In typical fashion, Kenney got his hands on anything available, which in this case was a bunch of B-32’s. Kenney was the right man for the Southwest Pacific because he could scrounge and finagle the necessary equipment like no other general.