F-7

Nose art on F-7A/B-24 "Blue Dragon". 24th Combat Mapping Squadron, 8th Photo Reconnaissance Group, 10th Air Force.

Pilot "Mike Howes" (Gordon T. Howes) motions out cockpit window of F-7A/B-24. 24th Combat Mapping Squadron, 8th Photo Reconnaissance Group, 10th Air Force.

Aerial Photographer Earnest Jones, holding camera.

Unknown artist painting "The Wily Wolves" squadron insignia on tail of 24th Combat Mapping Squadron F-7, #441680.

Loading film into 24th Mapping Squadron F-7A, #441678, from photographic equipment carrying trailer. February 22, 1945.

Loading film into 24th Mapping Squadron F-7A, #441678, from photographic equipment carrying trailer. February 22, 1945.

24th Mapping Squadron F-7A, #441968, in China, likely at Chanyi (Zhanyi).

Gun turret maintenance for F-7/B-24, October 1, 1944. Kermit Smith and Hummel. 24th Combat Mapping Squadron, 8th Photo Reconnaissance Group, 10th Air Force.

Aerial photographic compartment on F-7. 24th Combat Mapping Squadron, 8th Photo Reconnaissance Group, 10th Air Force. At Gushkara, India, 1945. These F-7 were in equipped with extra gas tank in place of the forward bomb bay on a B-24, and a converted aerial photo compartment in the back bomb bay, to map areas at 20,000 feet above terrain.

Engineer repairing fuel cell--from inside--during WWII. A B-24 or F-7 is in the background.