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Popular cartoon characters, from the Disney
studios, cartoon strips such as Al Capp’s “L’il Abner” or Milton Caniff’s
“Terry and the Pirates” became the mascots of many aircraft, possibly because
they were easier to draw than other images. Opposite, Bashful decorates
a B-24 of the 98th Bomb Group based in North Africa in 1943. Some
cartoons, however, had a special significance, as in the case of the images
that follow.
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