Flak-Bait’s forward fuselage provides a graphic record of its WWII service

Flak-Bait’s forward fuselage, shown here in the National Air and Space Museum’s Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar, provides a graphic record of its WWII service: a bomb for each mission, a large bomb for mission number 200, a duck for each diversionary mission, and a swastika for the enemy fighter downed by Flak-Bait’s gunners.