This was the second Liberator in the squadron to carry this title, the first being a camouflaged olive drab aircraft which sported one of Chestnut?s earlier figures ? a rarity since it was fully clothed. After this earlier one was withdrawn from combat in October with serious flak damage its replacement was a silver B24L which was assigned in December 44 and it was also given the Chestnut treatment using a slight variation to the original design. Both carried the thumb-hitching girl and Tokyo-USA road sign but the later version was another classic nude, or rather half-nude since the lady was wearing a flimsy skirt. As with all of the group?s B24s, it carried the Red Raiders emblem on the left side.

Almost at the end of hostilities, Round Trip Ticket #538 blew a tyre while landing at Motobu airfield, Okinawa, on 26 August 1945 while carrying 20 passengers and their baggage on a ferry trip. Pilot William Coleman lost control, the aircraft ground looped, skidded off the runway and cracked up injuring several passengers on board, killing one. It was a sad end for combat veteran of least 47 missions.