While searching for other aviation stuff online, I found this story from the November, 1943 issue of
Air Force magazine:

Should be easy to find reference to this, right? Wrong. Baugher, accident-report.com and Aviation Archaeology have no reference to a B-18A loss around Prince of Wales Island on February 7/8, 1943 and no reference to a pilot named Oscar Cook. Do any of my fellow WIXers have any better search ideas?
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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)