About 1942, the first B-17,at Molesworth England to have "Hell's Angel's" painted on the ship. It was near the waist gunners window, not the nose. Later the AAF banned painting anything on the fuseladge since squadron letters were authorized to be placed there for aircraft ID.
The 303rd Bomb Group of the 8th AAF decided to call themselves "Hell's Angel's" much to the dismay of this crew. However this aircraft had nose art depicting the "Hell's Angel"s" logo but without the flying "Whatzit?" shown here.
The bomber survived the war only to be scrapped in October 1945.
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