“My Name is Patricia, and the 321st Bomb Wing Voted Me ‘Miss Target'”

Found the photo in a USAF flying magazine from the late 50s.

Underwater Miss Target (R) takes aim at an overhead apple.

This charming young lady, Patricia, wore several hats (including a helmet) back in her modeling days. When not sitting on the wing of a B-47 Stratojet while attending to her responsibilities as “Miss Target” for the 321st Bomb Wing at McCoy AFB, she was busy trying to bite apples from beneath the waves at a local theme park. These vastly different career choices may seem at complete odds, but there was one overriding commonality: both jobs were best performed while wearing a swimsuit.

Note:

“Miss Target”…

Seems a rather ambiguous title, a double entendre, for a USAF organization whose primary mission was to not miss the target.