History: Who's the boy on the cover of Boy and War Friend of the band is the album cover model

That’s probably because you have the U.S. release of the album, which was censored / edited by Warner Records for fear of paedophilia claims.

The cover was changed in the States because of “a vague worry at the label that there might be a homosexual impression left from the boy’s waist-up nakedness.” (quote from former Principle Mgmt. director Ellen Darst) [SL, RA, Ge]