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Lady Luck II

Nose art of a crashed B-24 bomber, B-24J-10 bomber, serial #42-51850, named "Lady Luck II" flew missions over Burma while assigned to 436 Bombardment Squadron, 7th Bombardment Group, Tenth Air Force. The plane was transferred to Air Transport command, converted to a C-109 aerial tanker. It suffered severe damage in a landing accident at Luliang, China on 18 Nov 1944...
Nose art of crashed B-24J bomber (serial #42-51850) named "Lady Luck II", in China in WWII. Additional information: Sgt Elmer Bukey, 396th Air Service Squadron, noted on a photo of the "Lady Luck II" that it was being salvaged at Ankang, China.
Nose art of B-24J bomber, serial #42-51850, named "Lady Luck II".
A group of GIs poses before salvaged fuselage of B-24 bomber "Lady Luck II" at Ankang, China, during WWII: "This Is A Group Of 396th Guys I Think At Ankang, China. Kneeling: O'Connor, Wander, Hanson, and Caples. Standing: Euler, Schmidt, Besson, and Tacey."