impressive scoreboard of a wide variety of targets, and over 200 missions

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a much easier scoreboard to read

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I am so loving this, Marc sent me the photos of Georgies Gals, Helena and Angela. This is frickin cool

Ain't that the coolest damn thing you've seen all week? What a cool as hell idea, same woman, with a demon tail or halo, red and whi...

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Dear John P38, another impressive scoreboard, and with a cool mission symbol

Found on  https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/18151821004/ but this P38 without a nickname is more impressive  43-2136 of the 27th F...

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daring to be different, and a lot cooler, the Sugar's Blues mission markers are a woman diving

below is a painted replica, that didn't get the angle right. Thanks Steve! Sugar’s Blues’ nose art, is a copy of the famous pin-up gir...

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Daisy, named for Dagwood and Blondie's dog

Small dog silhouettes represent Daisy’s 26 combat operations. Thanks Steve!

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P-38 California Cutie of the 20th Fighter Group, one hell of a scoreboard

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check out the scoreboard!

And under the nazi flags are markers for buzz bombs, the Vergeltungswaffe 1 (V-1 flying bomb) For that matter, under the trains, there is th...

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the P 47 Magic Carpet, 175 missions replaced most everything at least once

That's why the wings are bare metal and the fuselage is painted. After combat damage repairs and replacements of 3 right wings,  2 left ...

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P 47 Lil' Herbie, 102 combat missions, including 2 on D Day

Check out the scoreboard... a barn, tanks, trains, trucks, cover missions, escort missions, sweeps, strafing missions, and I bet that huge b...

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What did a sideways bomb mission symbol mean? Or the variety of shaded and colored bomb symbols on the Boomerang? And on the B 29, what are those parachute symbols?

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Knock-Out Dropper

First Lieutenant John P. Manning, a pilot of the 303rd Bomb Group, watches Sergeant Stanley Jacobs painting the 50th, bomb mission marking o...

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Georgia Peach P 51 of Lt. King from the 355th Fighter Squadron

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougsheley/4339479243/ 22 bombing missions with 2 German planes destroyed, 1 locomotive, and 2 troop carriers,...

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what is the windmill mission symbol on the Vampin Vera representing?

http://flickrhivemind.net/Tags/453bg/Interesting http://www.b24bestweb.com/vampinvera1.htm

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the 676th bomber squadron had some better than normal nose art

Better N Nuttin -  25 bombing missions, 24 hump missions, 2 mining missions, 1 Jap shot down, ship hit 8 times. http://www.444thbg.org/676th...

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Happy Jack's Go Buggy....

Jack got into the Army Air Corps to fly, influenced by his father, a WW1 fighter pilot, and was assigned P 38s after graduation, which happe...

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The Flying Stud 2, with cool nose art dragon, and two mission symbols I haven't figured out. Binoculars and something above them

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dougsheley/5904053970/ The dragon is the 676th BS logo, the 1941 Disney feature "The Reluctant Dragon...

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Censored nose art

I told you so https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/19257197886/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/133697406@N05/18662724803/

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three umbrellas = top cover sorties completed, the eight top hats and sticks = bomber escort missions and the ten brooms = fighter sweeps."

http://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/usa/aircrafts-2-3/p-38-lightning/p-38j-lightning-serial-42-67449-miss-mass-of-the-367th-fg/  Umbrella...

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