Nip Nipper

B-24 Nip Nipper in flight during WWII. (Image courtesy of Angela Keane via Alan Starcher.)

This very tired and very worn B-24D bomber is probably at the airfield at Luliang, China. It has been modified, with nose, dorsal, ventral and tail gun turrets removed and those positions capped, similar to a C-87 Liberator Express or C-109 tanker version which had 6 additional fuel tanks carrying 2,400 gallons of fuel. This is believed to be serial...

The Consolidated B-24 bomber "Nip Nipper," serial #42-72837. This is later in the war, and the B-24 has been modified to carry cargo, with the nose guns (and much more) removed. Note the aircraft wing on blocks to the left, and the salvaged C-47 fuselage in the background. During WWII, in China.

The Consolidated B-24 bomber "Nip Nipper," serial #42-72837. This is later in the war, and the B-24 has been modified to carry cargo, with the nose guns (and much more) removed.

Nose art of a Consolidated B-24 bomber "Nip Nipper." This is later in the war, and the B-24 has been modified to carry cargo, with the nose guns (and much more) removed.

Selig Seidler, camera in hand, standing before the B-24 "Nip Nipper" somewhere in China during WWII.

A 373rd Bombardment Squadron (308th Bm Grp) crew poses at the nose of 'Nip Nipper', a B-24D1, serial #42-72837, probably in a revetment at Yangkai, early in 1944. Image from U. S. Government official sources.