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... Думаю, надпись означает:"летающий предприниматель"

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.

William A. Shomo

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.

Т. е. Шомо - действительно - до войны "держал" бизнес по оказанию ритуальных услуг