Slugsy Sachs was another example of Damon Runyon noseart assigned to 1/Lt Thomas A. Gromley of the 89th Bombardment Squadron.

It was delivered by ship from Santa Monica, California, to the Commonwealth Aircraft Factory near Melbourne in February 1944 where it was finally assembled on the 4th of that month. Delivered to Nadzab via Sydney, Townsville, Horn Island and Port Moresby it soon entered combat with the squadron. This Havoc survived the war and, like so many others of its ilk, was scrapped circa 1947.

In late 1943 Douglas Aircraft Corporation charged the US military $84,000 to supply them with A-20G-20-DO aircraft, constructed at their giant Santa Monica factory.

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