A North American B-25 Mitchell strafer, its solid nose bristling with eight forward-firing machine guns, sits on a coral airstrip in the Pacific. The aircraft carries distinctive nose art, a jagged lightning-bolt stripe paired with a predator's mouth, typical of the individualized markings favored by 345th Bomb Group ('Air Apaches') aircrews flying low-level strike missions from island bases such as Ie Shima. Project: 218234