This photograph shows a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, a distinctive twin-engine, twin-boom fighter used extensively by U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, bearing personalized nose art reading 'Moby Dick.' Naming and decorating aircraft was a widespread practice that boosted crew morale and gave individual planes a memorable identity. The airmen posed confidently across the wings and nose reflect the camaraderie and pride ground and flight crews took in their machines during the war. Project: 218089