B-26 Marauder, "The Widow Maker"
My father, Robert P. Cook, Lieutenant Colonel, USAF (Ret.), flew B-26s in the Pacific Theater during World War II. When the squadron needed replacements, he and other pilots would on occasion hop rides to the States to pick up new planes and fly them back. Family legend says that it was on this trip that I was conceived. That's how I got ahead of the post-war "Baby Boom." This is his photo.