Rusker:
Back in the early '50's, we had two of them at NAS Norfolk, when I was
in VC-62. One was set up for VIP (party) transport, the other for SAR.
I flew in both of them many, many times. We called them PB-1's. It is
quite a bird !!
It was by far the loudest, coldest, roughest plane ride I've ever been on and loved every second! Although I don't know where people got the courage to be on a plane like this for hours on end with the possibility of not coming back. A truly great generation.