I've never seen the original paintjob of the Nine O Nine until now, and it's the only airplane I've seen painted which appears to look like it's made of planks lumber!

https://aiiaiiiyo.com/post/656098717976428544/ground-crew-of-the-91st-bomb-group-paint-the-nose

was originally in the National Geographic Jan 1948 Issue Page 97.

"The original "Nine-O-Nine" was assigned to combat on February 25, 1944. By April 1945, she had made eighteen trips to Berlin, dropped 562,000 pounds of bombs, and flown 1,129 hours. She had twenty-one engine changes, four wing panel changes, fifteen main gas tank changes, and 18 Tokyo tank changes (long-range fuel tanks). She also suffered from considerable flak damage.

After European hostilities ceased, "Nine-O-Nine", with its six-hundred patched holes, flew back to the United States

https://www.flickr.com/photos/konabish/14591571415