Big Easy (1948); Anyone who sees a psychiatrist...

[Jesse Sheidlower]

>
> If "Big Easy" is a nickname, it may be quite difficult to chase down in
> military records.  Official records about airplanes include considerable data
> from maintenance logs and airport departure/arrival lists, and these logs
> will, to avoid ambiguity, always refer to an airplane by its tail number or
> its manufacturer's serial number.

There are, however, a number of books about aircraft nose art and similar
things of the World War II era; Lighter's read a number of them for
HDAS and they've been very useful. He's never found a "Big Easy", though.

Jesse Sheidlower