You want to read something, go to Wikapedia type in B-17 and go to the Medal of Honor Winners. What a bunch of heros. I am sure you could it for the B-24. Your dad was a hero.
I have a book on my Dad’s bomb group. He only talked a little about it, said it was the end of the war and all. But going over the crew list I found one out of six from the group were either made war prisoners or died. There’s a picture of one plane that made it back with it’s nose turret all shot up. Those were relatively small and cold planes flying with young kids stuck in lonely ball turrets. All heroes indeed.