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3rd REPLACEMENT CREW # 1 
"Yankee Dollah"
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AN 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"

Submitted by Larry Montague, April 1994 for the book "History of the 39th Bomb Group" 
by Robert Laird (crew 5) and David Smith (crew 31) used throughout this site as foundation and source.