WW2 Nose Art Pictures

My uncle's (man on the left) job was to keep them flying. Picture was taken at Foggia, Italy. The aircraft survived the war and I was able to trace the nose art panel as far as a military museum in Texas. Museum closed and I suspect the art inow hangs someone's man cave.



42-40765 | American Air Museum in Britain

 

Sometime ago I picked up this 'trench art' that I assume was made by someone connected with a 15th Air Force aircraft 'Big Sister'.

I'd love to find out more, but searches just come up with people's 'Big sisters'!

 

Flying Officer Maurice Scott of Fiji, serving in Syria with the Royal Air Force, with his Special Long Range Fighter, the Flying Fijian. "Maleka Jan" is a colloquial expression meaning "Good Luck".


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The nose art of a B-17 Flying Fortress (OR-B, serial number 42-31585) nicknamed "Mount 'N Ride" of the 91st Bomb Group.

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Image by William D "Bill" Pulliam, 91st Bomb Group.

 

"Frevermore!" EF268 Stirling IV 620 Squadron, 38 Group shot down on D-Day all crew killed in action.

 

That one seems to be pushing the limits for the ETO. Mild compared to some of the Pacific ones though.

 

'Suva Sal' F/O. Henry Maurice Scott - The Flying Fiji Spitfire 1943 Italy?

P/O. S.H. Kevill-Davies (middle) - Skeleton with top hat

 

Gremlins nose art British fighters Italy? North Africa? Middle East?

 

The Gremlin Teaser 'LJ542 G'. 199 Squadron Stirling EX-G.

 

I took these at the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, Suffolk. 2010.

 

A 100th Bomb Group B-17 based at Thorpe Abbotts, Norfolk 1944. My 1988 Model of this aircraft.

 

Not so elaborate, my 1985 model P-51D of the 352nd Fighter Squadron, 353rd Fighter Group. Raydon, Suffolk. 1944.

 

Four crew of a 9th Air Force A-20 Havoc nicknamed "Texas Steer" enjoy a cup of tea from a YCMA tea car service. They are from left to right: Lieutenant J.B. Terrell from Hamlin, Texas; Sergeant W.T. Evans, from Hattiesburg, Missouri; the pilot, Lieutenant G.L. Jackson, from Corpus Christi, Texas; and Sergeant J.F. Spellman, from Everett, Massachusetts.
Painted on the Boston's fuselage is the "Texas Steer" - emblem of the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.
7th September 1942


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Delta Rebel #2 of the 91st Bomb Group was MIA on 12th August 1943: 4 KIA, 6 POW. Enemy aircraft set ship ablaze, soon crashed. It finished its 25th mission on May 1, 1943. B 17 42-5077 (source from @FrancesBekafigo twitter #WWII 8th Air Force)

 

Yo-Yo "IT ALWAYS COMES BACK" B-17F-100-BO, sn 42-30375
(source Tempest Books on twitter)
"Not everybody knows it, but Memphis Belle's First Officer was "Capt. James Verinis [co-pilot]" a Greek-American"

 

RAF Ground personnel clear snow off a C-47 Dakota nicknamed "We Go Boomerang We Come Back" in Belgium January 1945


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Forget 'Nose Art' the whole aircraft was painted to attract attention. This was an Assembly Ship of the 93rd Bomb Group, Hardwick, Norfolk 1944. This actual painting being done on a piece of an Original B-24 that came to grief.

 

RAF Fighter Bonne Chance

 

Sir Hugh Garrett signs his name on the "Ethel Marsden" before Squadron Leader Franz Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld takes off on her, Bombay Squadron with 132 Squadron coat of arms. (KIA January 1944)

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