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EXPLANATION 50 YEARS LATER
"YANKEE DOLLAH"/"YANKEE DOLLAR"
Regarding
the aircraft inscriptions, the name "Yankee Dollah" was selected
Ewell
Nold, Airplane Commander, as was the usual case. It came
from the popular Andrew's Sisters song "Rum and Coca Cola."
The song told of a mother and daughter working for the Yankee
Dollah. The photo showing was on the original plane assigned
to us in the U.S. The artwork contained a bare breasted
female between the two words but the aircraft was being sponsored
by a civilian Army finance Office in Omaha, Nebraska and the
female had to be changed to the silver dollar for publicity
photos being sent to them. We flew the plane to Guam but
after arrival there, we never saw it again. We were considered
a replacement crew, not deserving of a new aircraft.
We
were assigned another aircraft and when Nold had the same name
inscribed, the artisit misspelled "Dollah" for "Dollar"
That's the reason or reason's why you see an older combat photo
plane with name "Yankee Dollar"
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