a scoreboard on your squadron's hanger? Damn cool. Nice to see the IH in front of it too.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=782234894938594&set=gm.10173873164415533&idorvanity=110663305532

well done nose art from a Milt Caniff character in Terry and the Pirates, Miss Burma, an A-20 in the 86th Bomb Squadron which flew out of numerous bases including French Morocco, Sicily, Italy and France.

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/original-u-s-wwii-miss-burma-47th-bombardment-group-a-2-flight-jacket?variant=29074643877957

https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/usa/aircrafts-2-3/a20/a-20b-41-3178-47th-bg-italy/

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

https://varney.yolasite.com/xxrs.php

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2559202207425318&set=gm.1199482020223647

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10223233527372295&set=gm.1687656064751933

modern versions of nose art, with Star Wars characters some just new versions of WW2 Disney military insignia / patches - and with cool mission symbols on the scoreboard, by Phil Postma

I just posted the original of this last week, the submarine USS Baya, SS 318 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/11/very-unusual-and-out-of-ordinary-disney.html

https://www.geeknative.com/53708/phil-postmas-star-wars-the-art-of-war these were made in 2015, before AI art

hell of a variety in the scoreboard: paratrooper drops, medevac, glider tows, cargo hauls

I guess the top row is troop drops

Damned if I know what the train is for, cargo?

The flag is for Medevac

But the camel was for the Over The Hump runs 

So, I don't know what the donkey was for

And the bottom row is towing gliders

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/decoding-wwii-plane-nose-art

what a hell of a thorough scoreboard!

for some reason, under the pilots elbow, is another piece of art,

https://www.aircorpsart.com/blog/aircraft-victory-mission-markings-of-wwii/

https://www.largescaleplanes.com/reviews/review.php?rid=523

https://flightlineinsignia.com/product/391st-fighter-squadron-heritage/

extremely successful A 20, looks like about 270 missions, A-20B 41-3178 “Miss Burma” 47th BG Italy May 1945

https://www.forcbodiesonly.com/mopar-forum/threads/nose-art.60295/page-2

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/original-u-s-wwii-miss-burma-47th-bombardment-group-a-2-flight-jacket?variant=29074643877957

check out the score board and mission symbols on this P38! Thank you Capt Doug!

https://www.forcbodiesonly.com/mopar-forum/threads/nose-art.60295/page-3

USS Saratoga’s “Scoreboard”

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1529783041079059&set=pb.100021421346688.-2207520000

nice scoreboard and nose art!

 https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/usa/aircrafts-2-3/b-24-bomber/b-24m-44-42020-squeeze-nose-art/

there is a WHALE in their scoreboard!

https://www.vintageleatherjackets.org/threads/random-cool-photo-thread.26448/page-77#post-404283

the P 47 Corny Babe has an incredible scoreboard

3 trains, 3 tanks, 40 bombing runs, one air to air kill represented as an Iron Cross marking, 6 escort missions, 5 fighter sweeps, 4 buzz bombs

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=57462

the B 25 named Desert Warrior had an unusual and interesting nose art and mission scoreboard

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/albums/72177720301586635/with/52312949159/

then, and now. Fighter planes from the USS Lexington, found by the Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen search team, in the Coral Sea

 

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/03/06/sunken-wwii-us-aircraft-carrier-found-off-australian-coast

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/takesabeating

really good nose art and scoreboards

cherries and cowboy boots for mission markers

https://www.ww2online.org/image

damn cool nose art and scoreboard on this B-25 ETO. 1943-45.

https://www.ww2online.org/image/nose-art-b-25-mitchell-bomber-europe-between-1943-1945-3

the Yankee Doodle II Crashed off the end of the runway on New Years' Eve in 1942, when two drunk Lieutenants took off from Espiritu Santo (New Hebrides) to fly to Fiji for booze.

https://forums.gunboards.com/showthread.php?1045655-Pacific-B-17-Base-1942

Never let a drunk behind the wheel. They simply will fuck something up and probably kill themselves. 

Lemon Drop was one of nine aircraft flown to England by the 68th BS. She was a veteran of Operation Tidalwave, the August 1943 low-level mission to bomb the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/military-vehicle-news/colorful-assembly-bombers.html

respectable scoreboards

this is P 47 pilot Ed Fisher in 1944, https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2019/08/whoa-look-at-that-scoreboard-p-47-pilot.html

notice that this guy is the same guy painting on different planes

a BRIDGE?!!?!

http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?430