I'd love to know more about The Ugly Duckling - from the aft fuselage markings, I suspect she was in the MTO, but that dull black camouflage suggests she predated the creation of the Fifteenth Air Force. I might have to put a bid in on her...
Cheers,
Dana
- Post script - I found her on B-24 Best Web - she was 464th BG, 778th BS, joining the Fifteenth in the MTO in February 1944. The flat black is very unusual at a time when the AAF had already switched to the very glossy Jet Black.