The U.S. Air National Guard’s 190th Fighter Squadron commemorated the unit’s 75th anniversary in May with an A-10 Thunderbolt II painted to resemble the P-47 Thunderbolt the squadron flew during World War II. The “Heritage Hawg” paint scheme features black-and-white invasion stripes like those painted on aircraft the evening of June 4, 1944, used to help American anti-aircraft gunners differentiate between Allied and enemy fighters during the D-Day invasion.

A pilot with the 190th Fighter Squadron, 124th Fighter Wing, Boise, Idaho, flies an A-10 Thunderbolt II with a newly-painted WWII heritage paint scheme from the Air National Guard’s paint facility in Sioux City, Iowa, to its new home at the Idaho Air National Guard, Gowen Field, Idaho, May 12, 2021.

Staff Sergeant Mercedee Wilds/US Air National Guard