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Post #717730 by tikilongbeach on Wed, May 21, 2014 10:00 AM

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Not a very PC flight jacket. Lt. Ken Strong, who’d been an artist for Walt Disney, created the Pacific Islander character Asterperious for the 319th Bomb Squadron. The jolly roger with cross-bombs was the insignia for the 90th Bomb Group.

Close up of the image. It's from a WW II photo album.