UNITED STATES EIGHTH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1942-1945 - Nose section of a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft of the 56th Fighter Group. The nose art depicts a character named "Hairless Joe", from the popular comic strip "Li'l Abner".Handwritten on slide casing:"Mount Farm LM:S & 6N:O Astrella" The nose art of P-47 Thunderbolt "Hairless Joe" depicts the character Hairless Joe, a hirsute club wielding early modern human, poacher from the American comic 'L'il Abner'. Hairless Joe alongside his companion Lonesome Polecat (a caricature Native American) brewed a potent alcoholic elixir which was strong enough
UNITED STATES EIGHTH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1942-1945 - Nose section of a P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft of the 56th Fighter Group. The nose art depicts a character named "Hairless Joe", from the popular comic strip "Li'l Abner".Handwritten on slide casing:"Mount Farm LM:S & 6N:O Astrella" The nose art of P-47 Thunderbolt "Hairless Joe" depicts the character Hairless Joe, a hirsute club wielding early modern human, poacher from the American comic 'L'il Abner'. Hairless Joe alongside his companion Lonesome Polecat (a caricature Native American) brewed a potent alcoholic elixir which was strong enough to stupefy residents of 'Dogpatch', the comic's fictional L'il Abner comics, written and drawn by Al Capp from 1934 to 1977, were published daily in more than 900 newspapers in North America. The comics were a satirical depiction of white rural mountain dwellers who spoke in a mock-southern dialect. The comic depicted their life in the fictional ramshackle mountain town of 'Dogpatch' which was inhabited by an ignorant, and unprincipled population of lazy men and overbearing women, United States Army Air Forces, United States Army Air Forces, 8th Air Force, United States Army Air Forces, 56th Fighter Group
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