Nose art...

[LA2019]

My great uncle Pete was a side gunner in a B-24. He always had a camera on him and liked to take pictures of nose art. Thought I'd share....

[Airframes]

Great pics, and some nicely executed artwork. thanks for sharing.

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

With Airframes here LA! Thank you for sharing!

[mikewint]

La2019, agreed thanks so much for sharing what is unfortunately in these PC times a vanishing form of expresion. A few guys tried in Vietnam on tanks and APCs but some visiting officer from command would always nix it sooner or later

[bobbysocks]

i love nose art! those are awesome...thanks for sharing.

[T Bolt]

Wonderful photos!! I know I haven't seen any of that nose art before.

[N4521U]

Great stuff, and some before they were required to be Clothed!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing!

[P40NUT]

Great pics, thanks for sharing.

[Gnomey]

Great shots! Thanks for sharing.

[bobbysocks]

while i was searching b-24 stuff i came across this site. the guy is selling the pics .... i have no affiliation to him. but some nice stuff to look at.

B24 nose : Sports Linkup Shop : B24 nose

[ppopsie]

Thanks for the nose arts. Last summer I started working on a Monogram 1/48 B-24J kit as a side project, applying the same technique as on the B-17G did last year. Now it is about 80% finished.

I am to portlay the story on the website below, about a pilot taking an instrument flight training in his B-24 with a squadron/wing IP. The trainee is doing a level turning on the instruments applying 60 degrees of bank while the instructor on the right seat scans the horizon. The aircraft should be the Ford built B-24M 44-50795.
World War II Pilots

The "nose arts" made on thousands of the great canvases or walls on the B-24s during WW2 are truly amazing (19000 plus x2). Now I am wondering what had happened when the good sons/husbands or fathers who flew the bombers in the war fronts and came back to America carrying pictures of their loving aircraft along, and showed them to their mother/wife/daughters and sons.