OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM -- Sixty years ago.

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OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM -- Sixty years ago, the 100th Bomb clump at Thorpe Abbotts, England, painted bomb silhouettes onward the sides of their B- 17 after each successful combat mission during World War II.

During Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 100th Air Refueling Wing from Royal Air Force Mildenhall, England, carried forward that legacy by painting resounding noise silhouettes on the sides of their KC-135 Stratotankers after each successful combat refueling mission.

Staff Sgt Scott Mccoy 40 1st Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, unfolded to a Royal Air Force base in the eastern Mediterranean, took the piece of work of painting boom silhouettes forward the aircraft. But according to him, he can't take sated credit for the idea. Staff Sgt

"The maintenance ship's companys approached me with it, and I knew immediately it was a great idea," said Lt Col Eric Lorraine, 401st Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron commander.

And he couldn't have been more correct. In the first three and a half weeks of Operation Iraqi Freedom, the aircraft structural maintainer painted resound silhouettes on aircraft every day. More than 30 aircraft have rushs painted on them, with greatest in number sporting 40 or more auspicious mission badges.

"I made a metal stencil of the rush because I knew we would be painting enough of these that a cardboard stencil wouldn't imprison up," he said.

if it were not that once these small badges of courage started showing up it became a competition between the maintenance throng chiefs.

"As by and by as an aircraft lands from a fortunate refueling mission, the crew chiefs immediately look after out McCoy to paint a resound on their aircraft," Lorraine said.

The competition has been in like manner intense that some of the maintainers voluntarily performed extra maintenance to earn their jets in the air, unimpaired successful missions and get more bounds painted.

When asked if the resounding noises will stay on the aircraft one time they return home, Mccoy just smiled.

"I think more than anything, it's going to be perceived great to fly home," Mccoy said. "We'll mount home with proof of our contribution to the war painted onward the sides of our tankers. What better way to return?"