Aerodrome technicians and American pilot Lt. William Sloan near their Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter aircraft No. 43-2112 “SAD SACK” at the airfield during World War II in North Africa. 95th Fighter Squadron of the USAF.
Lieutenant William “Dixie” Sloan has just won his eighth victory (Messerschmitt Bf.109 of the Nazi Luftwaffe) out of twelve recovered during the war.
The inscription on the P-38 “Lightning” of Lt. Sloan – “Sad Sack” – is the name and the hero of the popular American comics (and then the cartoons) invented by Sergeant George Baker during World War II and published in the periodical for American soldiers “Yank, the Army Weekly “from June 1942.
Location: North Africa
Time when the photo was taken: 07 January 1943