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... Думаю, надпись означает:"летающий предприниматель"
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Самолёт с серийным номером 45–11526 имеет двигатель Packard Merlin V-1650–7 мощностью 1315 л. с. и окрашен в стиле истребителя «Летающий гробовщик», на котором воевал американский пилот Уильям Шомо.
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Shomo had been in the undertaker business before the war. He named all his aircraft "Snooks" (plus the appropriate numeral) to note this. The F-6D in which he won his Medal of Honor was "Snooks 5"; this aircraft was later lost while being flown by another pilot. The next F-6D was briefly "Snooks 6" but was changed to "The Flying Undertaker". Though Shomo flew more than 200 combat missions in World War II, he saw only a total of 14 enemy aircraft from his cockpit and destroyed eight of them.
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Т. е. Шомо - действительно - до войны "держал" бизнес по оказанию ритуальных услуг