Mike discovered the aircraft had been painted three times. "The star’s in three different places," he says. "You can see the red dot in the first one." Early photos of the plane show what looks like olive drab, but Mike says, "It was a greener green. A lot of this stuff, when it was painted, was possibly going to the RAF. So it had RAF colors on them, and then we took them back and put our star on it. As the paint was stripped away, two names emerged: Tangerine (same as the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra's No. 1 hit in May and June 1942) and Desert Rat (from the plane's later sojourn in North Africa, where it was converted to an XC-108).