Nose Art

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I placed it in Pacific Theatre just because I have more nose art from this area… Well if you will send more from Europe, noble Moderators may change it…
Bombers “Nose Art”.
Something uniquely American. Art which says a lot about brave boys flying their machines.
Nose art shows their dreams, show what they couldn’t get after landing on dusty Pacific islands airfields…

After WWII only one War monument captured real dreams of soldiers - without any doubt Australian
El-Alamein memorial in Sydney’s Kings Cross. Idea was simple - they needed water, beer and girls…
Designers set an impressive fountain in Sydney’s red lights district - boys were really happy.
Nose art is still awaiting recognition…
Have a look at some more impressive samples:
(Thanks to Northstar Gallery and Chet Nycum’s Collection via Corregidor Society).


Glamorous Gal P-51 Mustang - not bomber but really good

Lancer44

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La Cherie by Hal Olsen
PB4Y-2 BuNo 59489 VPB-121 and VPB-106

#3

http://parentseyes.arizona.edu/militarynoseart/overview3.htm

This site is good for nose art! Maybe we should have a go at making our own?

Did you know,

Another Disney effect was tied to the studio’s role as producer of war propaganda. Distinct from the art painted by the crews between missions was the variety painted by Disney artists at the time of production of the aircraft. The close proximity of Disney studios in Burbank to both Lockheed’s main and subsidiary plants prompted a collaborative effort between the U.S. government and Disney. Studio artists created art that promoted the country’s involvement in the war as the planes came off the assembly line. Not shying away from racial slurs and derogatory commentary, this art was meant to place the enemy leaders in a negative light

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The Dragon and his Tail by Sarkis E. Bartigan
B-24J-190-CO 44-40973 43rd Bomb Group

More will come - send yours!
Cheers,

Lancer44

#5

Hi SS Tiger!

Well, in my opinion boys during WWII paid less attention to…

“Not shying away from racial slurs and derogatory commentary, this art was meant to place the enemy leaders in a negative light”.

As a matter of fact they did not give a damn, official propaganda occasionally only had a go.
What I’m trying to show are their real needs expressed through “nose art”.
I can guess that Yankee boys based in England and Scotland had sort of different dreams that boys on Pacific Islands… They lived in a land of plenty…

Have a good day, mate!

Lancer44

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http://www.nose-art.net/

#10

It is quite interesting what influenced Nose Art.
Obviously “girlie magazines”.
Here you can see the first one “Beauty Parade”.
It’s first number was published in October 1941.
It is obvious that editor had what we can call “a nose”…
Soon boys started to buy and receive as gifts millions of magazines.




Cheers,

Lancer44

#11

sure some of you have heard this. aviators painted art on the nose of their aircraft. Americans usually painted naked women. some very explicit. I heard some important woman from Washington visited the air base’s in England and was appalled at what she saw. and ordered it all removed before returning to the US. at least that’s the story I heard. nose art was a moral booster. and the flyers resented the order. here’s some vintage nose art. fell free to add your own. nose art is still used today. although toned down from their fathers/grandfathers aircraft because of more media exposure.


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click on this photo in the link and you go into the gallery slide
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#12

German pilots must have looked all jealous on these paintings. They never would have been allowed to have something like this painted on their machines. Nude flesh was a no-go in Nazi Germany and “blemishing” a plane like this would be regarded as decadent.

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Bf 110 of Zerstörer-Geschwader 1, the Wespen- (=wasp) Geschwader


Bf 110 of II./Zerstörer-Geschwader 76 ", the Haifisch- (=shark) Gruppe

No individual paintings of course but those of a certain unit.

#14

The US aircrews drew censure for their risque nose art and in some theaters various regulations were passed against it periodically. But for the most part, the bevy of painted beauties always returned to the bombers…

#15

Merged related thread by Lancer44 called Bomber Nose Art with this thread.

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Boeing B-17F “Hell’s Belle” (A 23060 G) under pilot Lt. Gwinn, shot down near Düren/Western Germany. Date unfortunately unknown, must have been between December 1943 and December 1944. All ten crew members survived the crash and were taken POW’s.

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“Strawberry Bitch” :smiley: and “Wishful Thinkin” re so cool!
Some art:



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B-17G-20-BO (42-31585) of the 91st Bomb Group.Made by Tony Starcer

another arts


I like this style of graphic,it’s a typical american art.
This style of graphic still live in the US?

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“Alberto Vargas” - pin-up art - (google image search)
http://images.google.com/images?as_st=y&hl=en&q=“alberto+vargas”&btnG=Search+Images

“Varga Girls” - pin-up art - (google image search)
http://images.google.com/images?as_st=y&ndsp=20&hl=en&q=“varga+girls”&start=0&sa=N

“Varga Girls” - art books - amazon.com
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=varga+girls&x=10&y=17

Alberto Vargas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Vargas

Alberto Vargas (9 February 1896–30 December 1982) was a noted painter of pin-up girls and erotica. Born in Arequipa, Peru, Joaquin Alberto Vargas y Chávez came to the United States in 1916 after studying art in Europe prior to World War I. His early career included work as an artist for the Ziegfeld Follies and for many Hollywood studios. Vargas’ most famous piece of film work was that for the 1933 film The Sin of Nora Moran, which shows a near-naked Zita Johann in a pose of desperation. The poster is frequently named one of the greatest movie posters ever made. He became famous in the 1940s as the creator of iconic World War II era pin-ups for Esquire magazine known as “Varga Girls.” The nose art of many World War II aircraft was adapted from these Esquire pin-ups. … (continues)

More Vargas:

http://www.sfae.com/index.php?action=gallery&status=show_artist&ID=3

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Features/CA_Feature_Basic_Template/0,2344,615,00.html

http://www.thepinupfiles.com/vargas1.html

http://www.bpib.com/illustra2/vargas.htm

http://fineart.elib.com/fineart.php?prev=Ethnicity/Peruvian-American&dir=Site_index%2FPeruvian-American%2FVargas

ALSO:

Pin-up girl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin-up_girl

List of pin-up artists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pinup_artists

Nose Art
http://www.noseart.ch/

#20

I love nose art. Here some i found.

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