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Jack Cook
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Out with the black and in with red.
P-47D-30-RA s/n 44-33813 "Balls Out" G9+L 509th FS 405th FG flown by Capt Milt Thompson
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Stunning :o

Can we now get the rest :wink:
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Oooooops...still masking tape left.....
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Cant wait to see some A2A shots! Awesome! And thanks Jack!

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Thanks for that, Jack. Jug lovers world-wide are drooling.

Any insight yet on where she might be seen out-and-about this summer?

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See it at the secret owners convention!
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Jug lovers world-wide are drooling.


We certainly are!!!!

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An assortment of 509th FS Noseart pics:

http://wing.chez-alice.fr/USAAF/405th_F ... th_FS.html

Also, 405th FG paint jobs have seen quite a surge in popularity with surviving Jugs: "Squirt VIII", "Tallahassee Lassie", and now "Balls Out". Can't leave the original "Dottie Mae" out of that list either.

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Ok Rod needs to bring Balls Out and Glacier Gal to WOH this year and leave the Mustang at home! Would LOVE to see two jugs in the air again!
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Now thats a good paint job. Cant wait to see it when its finished.

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This pic suggests that the artist took a bit of... umm... artistic license with the current rendition. :D

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Hopefully the detail anoraks don't get too bent out of shape. :wink:

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I like it, but I foresee some grief from some less enlightened observers of the kind that caused the Big-Ass Bird scheme to go away. But the present owner may be able to afford to ignore such noises.

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wow nice to see a change of markings!!! :D :D That is really cool!

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Superbly done artwork! 8) Did Don Ricci do that? It looks like his style.

It has a bull.

It says Balls Out.

Too bad it's not even close to accurate. That's not being an anorak. That's putting the history before your own artistic style. Maybe they never saw that photo and only saw profiles in books. Then it's understandable. But if I had a project where there was crappy referenece material and then a photo magically appeared that could have helped make it correct, then I would be incredibly bummed as an artist, and historian.

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Oh, and what did it look like before? I couldn't find any pics in google or on WIX.

Here's a pretty good profile from http://wing.chez-alice.fr

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