Since my last entry about the WW II nose art sent by Byron Crump in Australia, Byron has sent additional images that are now part of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) New Guinea, 1942-1946 section of Military Aircraft Nose Art: An American Tradition.
Lou Crump, right, on the wing of a P-47 Thunderbolt
Corporal Crump sent images of planes on airbases, such as the P-47 Thunderbolt "Jug" bomber and B-17 Flying Fortress, more scenes of New Guinea, and one of troops advancing in Bouganville. [Wikipedia article re: Bouganville Campaign, 1943-1945]
tail insignia of the JollyRogers
One of the most interesting of the new images displays the twin-tail insignia of a huge skull surmounting two crossed bombs indicating the plane was part of U.S 5th Air Force 90th Bomb group - the Jolly Rogers. On the Jolly Rogers' website and is a story about a B-24D Liberator bomber nicknamed "Ready, Willing and Able," that disappeared in a thunderstorm on March 5, 1944, over Papua New Guinea. It's tail was found 43 years later by European tourists trekking over a mountain range in New Guinea's Mandang province. This chance discovery enable the U.S. Army's Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii to identify the plane and crew.