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B-24M Mad Russian by TK622 Via Flickr: B-24M S/N 44-41846 of the 65th Bomb Squad, 43rd Bomb Group, 5th Air Force. The Mad Russian artwork was commissioned by Pilot and later the Squadron's Operations Officer 1/Lt Andrew Burochonock, a New Yorker with Russian roots, who went by that nickname himself. The artwork was designed by S/Sgt Sarkis E. Bartigan and painted Sgt Enoch H. Wingert. The aircraft was assigned to the 65th BS on 20 January 1945. It survived the war and returned to the US in November 1945. Eventually scrapped at RFC Kingman, Arizona. Photo taken on Ie Shima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan in October 1945.

B-24M Mad Russian by TK622 Via Flickr: B-24M S/N 44-41846 of the 65th Bomb Squad, 43rd Bomb Group, 5th Air Force. The Mad Russian artwork was commissioned by Pilot and later the Squadron's Operations Officer 1/Lt Andrew Burochonock, a New Yorker with Russian roots, who went by that nickname himself. The artwork was designed by S/Sgt Sarkis E. Bartigan and painted Sgt Enoch H. Wingert. The aircraft was assigned to the 65th BS on 20 January 1945. It survived the war and returned to the US in November 1945. Eventually scrapped at RFC Kingman, Arizona. Photo taken on Ie Shima, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan in October 1945.