Buddy Larsen: What you saw in San Marcos
was a “Droop Snoot”. Took out the guns,
altered the nose into that funny configuration, stuffed a bombardier into
resulting compartment. Droop Snoot would
then swoop in low and mark the target so
the other P38s could do “high altitude precision bombing”. (They usually omitted the “high altitude”.

The “precision” was fair to middling good—–unless the bombardier had hypoxia, in which case something or other in Northern Italy
received an unexpected load of bombs.