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Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum photo by Lauren Gottschlich
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Flak-Bait with IR Photography
On Flak-Bait, in many locations along the fuselage, a combination of overpainting and soiling obscured the handwriting, which was made legible with the IR photography.
Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum photo by Lauren Gottschlich