Saturday, December 06, 2025

An innovative way to display mission markers on a WW2 bomber, "punching a ticket" on the Tough Shit, with an outhouse tent between the T and the S, and the mission markers were "punched out" around the perimeter

 
42-64051, "T.S.", with the blue reconnaissance camouflage paint half removed, late May or early June 1944, at Nadzab, New Guinea, then Biak Island in this time frame.


The boxes around the perimeter of a T.S. card could be X'd out, or punched ticket fashion, to indicate use.

The nose art was applied at Hickam Field, Hawaii while the repair of leaking fuel tanks delayed the trip to New Guinea


20th Photographic Mapping Squadron Long range aerial mapping and reconnaissance using F-7A and F-7B aircraft (B-24's converted for aerial photography) Radar intelligence gathering with B-24J ferrets




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