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More commonly known as nose art. Nose art is a decorative painting or design on the fuselage of an aircraft, usually on the front fuselage. These colorful decorations are compared to a sophisticated graffiti of the 20th century.
Nose Art Was Also A Great Way To Build Esprit De Corps With The Crew And Maintainers Around A Plane, As Seen In This Photo Of The Crew Of Waddy’s Wagon Recreating Their Own Nose Art.
As in all american theaters of operation during world war ii, air crews in the southwest pacific took great pride in their planes and often named them and adorned them with artworks on the nose of the airplane; Many others had the official geschwader emblem + sometimes a little extra. Airplane nose art came to prominence during ww2, becoming very popular with the us airman.
As Well As The Phantom Image, The Aircraft’s Nose Is Decorated With A Record Of Operational Sorties Using Yellow Bomb Symbols While A Red Bomb Signified A Trip To The ‘Big City’, As The Bomber Crews Referred To Berlin.
While begun for practical reasons of identifying friendly units, the practice evolved to express the individuality often constrained by the uniformity of the military, to evoke memories of home and peacetime life, and as a kind of psychological protection against the stresses of war and. This creatively named girl belonged to the 332nd bomber squadron of the 94th bombardment group but after being transferred to france, she was hit by flak where most of her crew perished. My dad went over with the 8th usaaf in september 1942 and painted hell’s angels, udder confusion, sky wolf and others.
Wwii Aircraft Art Was Done By Professional Civilian Artists, Talented Amateur Servicemen, And Even Disney.
The aircraft of the 4th fighter group featured some of the most memorable nose art in the eto, the creations of gifted artists like 334's don allen of chagrin falls, ohio (right, top) and 336's fred rice of alamosa, colorado. Nose art was less common among other nations during the war and was banned completely by the us navy, which barely allowed a few letters on the noses of their aircraft. The planes, while officially designated by painted aircraft numbers, were most often identified by the names selected by their crews and then painted on the nose of the plane.
While The Germans Were A Bit More Conservative, They Allowed Thier Crews To Do The Same.
Sometimes the names were accompanied by artwork such as that of the grim reaper dispensing bombs on the phantom of the ruhr. Unique names and fierce nose art designs (images via: In the last 15 years many books have been published dealing with the subject of world war ii nose art.