The Ink Squirts, by Jack Kellogg... simply fantastic. He was the official artist of the 98th Seabees in the Pacific. The B 25 was in the 41st BG

and maybe you've seen the above before, hell, I've probably posted it already. But here is what effing kills me... there is a couple more painted guys on this plane that no one ever shows!

TIL NOW! Rowen made this scale model and this is the 1st I've ever seen the whole plane, to learn there were 3 more characters on the rest of the plane

http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?showtopic=48014

So I looked up Jack Kellogg, and scored these, as Life Magazine photographer JR Eyerman was out to Tarawa and saved the wall art for posterity

is that an operating table, and ether used to keep the patient knocked out?

https://www.google.com/search?q=source:life&tbm=isch&gws_rd=ssl#tbm=isch&q=source:life+March+1944+J.+R.+Eyerman&imgrc=_
http://segui-riveted.blogspot.com/2012/11/98th-seabees-in-tarawa-missing-link.html

and Jack was the artist for the "yearbook" and yes, I just bought the last one on Amazon. Ebay doesn't have any copies

http://segui-riveted.blogspot.com/2012/11/98th-seabees-in-tarawa-missing-link.html
but you can look at a lot of them on http://tarawatheaftermath.com/PhotosFoxholeA.html

Above the O Club, and below, an obviously experienced signpainter (just before they diversified and became pinstripers too)

http://www.formerdays.com/2012/04/south-pacific.html#more

And he seems to have been the artist in residence for a Seabees newspaper of the 98th, called 98th C.B.'s Seabreeze

but there is only one online source for that and it's a sign up registration nonsense site

and one thing that is clear, the "Ink Squirts" was his comic strip's title

this is page 159

https://www.fold3.com/browse/1/h6eYXDVPQA8fArOOVJnKGK0zhQDhigsBd

http://41stbombgrp.com/

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