A young American serviceman poses beside the wing of a heavily camouflaged aircraft bearing a painted pin-up figure, in a photograph associated with the Ie Shima area and the 345th Bomber Group collection. The aircraft's dense, hand-applied mottled camouflage pattern is more typical of Japanese Army or Navy air units than U.S. paint schemes, suggesting this may be a captured or wrecked enemy aircraft rather than American equipment -- a common subject for informal 'souvenir' photographs taken by U.S. troops in the aftermath of the Okinawa campaign. Project: 218235