T/Sgt. Harold "Hal" Geer, photographer and videographer, 16th Combat Camera Unit (CCU) examines masking on bomb icons on a B-25 of the 11th Bomb Squadron (indicated by the "Mr. Jiggs" insignia) readying for painting to indicate three more bombing missions. Taken at Ehr Tong Airfield, Guilin (Kweilin), Guangxi Province, southwest China during WWII, as photographed by Selig Seidler, 16th CCU.
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Mr. Jiggs
The B-25 is unidentified, but assigned to 11th Bombardment Squadron (M) as indicated by the "Mr. Jiggs" insigne.
At the start of America's entry into WWI the 11th Aero Squadron was organized 26 June 1917. The 11th flew combat missions from 14 September to 5 November 1918. Jiggs was a cartoon character invented five years before by an 11th Squadron officer, George McManus, whose comic strip, Bringing Up Father, was the first of its kind to attract a worldwide readership. McManus developed the Squadron's emblem featuring the famous Jiggs with a bomb tucked under his arm. Over the next two decades, as the Squadron evolved so did the insigne to the one displayed on the 11th Squadron's B-25.
Geer is looking at the masking where the plane is about to receive three more mission symbols, for a total of 67.