Collection relating to the service of Henry Joseph Erb RAAF

Nose art on an Avro Lancaster aircraft code named 'P' Peter (W4881) of 460 Squadron, RAAF. The nose art painted on the side of the aircraft depicts male and female cartoon caricatures arm in arm. The male figure is wearing a grass skirt and holding a boomerang trailing string, to which are attached the caricatured heads of axis leaders in Adolph Hitler, Benito Mussolini, the Japanese war minister Hirohito and a bone. The female is wearing an Australian flag skirt, bangle, necklace and a hibiscus in her hair. The aircraft has been named 'Fooship IV' and next to the nose art is the aircraft's bomb log showing 31 completed operations. This aircraft was destroyed over Berlin, Germany, on 3 December 1943.