7th Air Force men used a little imagination, discarded belly tanks, plus a small engine to make this improvised car. They have nicknamed it "The Bug". Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands, 12 June 1945.
B-17F "Hells Bell" after crash 91st bomb Group 323rd BS 42-30157
Per the American Air Museum. Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/43; Tinker 27/4/43; Smoky Hill 5/5/43; Tinker 24/5/43; Smoky Hill 29/5/43; Dow Fd 1/6/43; Assigned 323BS/91BG [OR-P] Bassingbourn 10/6/43 DIRTY GERTIE 1m; battle damaged Kassel 30/7/43, 2m with Don Van der Heyde, Co-pilot: Don Primeau, Navigator: Harry Warren, Bombardier: Walter Brown, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Pete Comac, Radio Operator: John Klopolsky, Ball turret gunner: Homer Mitts, Waist gunner: Bill Wannemacher, Waist gunner: Mack Walton,Tail gunner: Dick Sparman (10 Returned to Duty); enemy aircraft also shot out hydraulics soon after reaching the Channel, it limped back to crash landed base with severe damage, but crew unharmed; Salvaged 25/8/43. HELLS BELLEs.
"Ensign Takamisakari Seiken, 57th term officer of the Hitachi Guidance Flight Division. Assigned to 13 squadrons. Killed in action at Ormoc Bay on December 7, 19[44]'' - translated from Japanese with Google Translate. Source:Redirect Notice
The plane is a very early Ki-43-II model, pictures of this specific model are very rare and it's likely this was taken at a training school.
PFC Tony Vaccaro, 83rd Infantry Division, sits on the wing of Swing Shift Baby of the 452nd Bomb Group that crash landing in Luxembourg, 25 September 1944
Source: usaac-official