Aviation Buff

Picture of the Day for 2/15/2014. After a two-day hiatus, I'm resuming Bob and Polly Merrill Week. Today's entry celebrates my dad's love of aviation. 

Here he is perched on the wing of a North American Aviation AT_6 at an airfield in Texas.


And here he is in the cockpit of a B-29 on Guam during World War ll. The nine bombs painted on the side of the plane indicate the plane had gone on nine bombing runs. My dad was a pilot and had been hoping to fly in the United States Army Air Corps, but ended up being drafted into the Navy where he served as a storekeeper in the supply depot. I'm not surprised my dad finagled his way onto the plane for this photo. My dad was a great finagler.