Nose Art

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SUGAR BLUES ---- B-17G-20-DL ---- 42-37939

91st Bomb Group / 323rd Bomb Squadron

 

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UH-1 gunship from the 121^st Attack Helicopter Company, the "Vikings."

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WINNING RUN ---- B-17F----- 42-29944

303rd Bomb Group / 427th Bomb Squadron

 

Modificato 9 Gennaio 2009 da Blue Sky

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Avevo visto art su degli MBTs, ma su dei semplici autocarri mai.

 

 

Done by SSG Calvin Christie and SGT Robert Jackson, cousins. Iraq, 740^th TC, April 2002-August 2003.

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B-17 Nose!

 

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EF-111A

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B-17 Nose

 

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The spying Indian of the 5^th Sq. was painted on SAAB S 17A F 3-65.

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B-17 Nose!

 

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Some years during the 1940s, F 3 had a detachment of some S 14 Fieseler Storch aircraft at Kiruna in the north. They had this Laplander painted on the left side of the fuselage.

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TEMPEST TURNER

Named for Lana Turner - used to promote "Marriage is a Private Affair"

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Nose art painted by S/Sgt Sarkis E. Bartigian

43rd Bomb Group

Ie Shima, South Pacific

 

 

MABEL'S LABELS B-24J Serial unknown

43rd Bomb Group

 

"Gimme a great big smile!" And who could resist such an invitation! Another amazing creation by Bartigian which adorns the entire nose on one side of the B24 with a superb portrait of his young wife Mabel and a series of graphic lipstick kisses and beguiling nudes -- any one of which would have been considered enough on most embellished planes. Never one to hold back, Sgt Bartigian just kept on painting and filled his entire "canvas". Many aircraft around the world were adorned with portraits of loved ones, wives, sweethearts, children.... none of them were greater than this magnificently huge tribute to the artist's young bride. Here was a man who clearly enjoyed his work!

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SHERIDAN EXPRESS

Named for Ann Sheridan

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F-111E "A Knight to Remember" (foto di qualità non eccelsa, peccato)

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Mist'er Chance

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98BG-344BS: It’s a love letter, not a carrot, on the stick in front of the mule’s nose. Don Voyles was a gunner on the crew that had U.S. Mule painted on the nose. Chet Domboski wrote: “As I arrived at Yokota they were busy taking the nose art off…” Chet was an engine mechanic in the 91^st & 6091^st, Apr 54-Apr56. Mule was formerly a 19BG-30BS aircraft named Bluetail Fly.

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Bellissimo!

 

 

B-17 Nose

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Bellissimo!

 

 

Grazie, cominciavo a dubitare di trovare qualcosa di originale.

 

 

F-111- dell'Aviazione (c'è bisogno di dirlo?) Australiana

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5th Brigade

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F-111C, RAAF

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Double Trouble

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F-111, Red Flag 2002

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Nose art painted by Sgt Cecil Lippard

344th Bomb Squadron, 98th Bomb Group

Kabrit, Libya, North Africa

 

 

ALICE THE GOON B-24D 41-11786

344th Bomb Squadron

This was one of the original cadre of B24s assigned to the 98th Bomb Group. It was painted by Lippard with a crude but memorable image of a caveman figure clutching two small bombs. It was not his regular B24 but, on 19th January 1943, Sgt Lippard was flying as a replacement tail gunner with Lt Lewis's crew in "Alice the Goon" when they were hit by flak over Tripoli harbour. Both wings were hit and the right wing tip completely shot away. Two engines caught fire and Lt Lewis turned to head for Malta, pursued by Me109 fighters. Finally, 47 miles south of Malta, Lewis attempted to ditch the damaged B24. As it hit the water, the tail broke off, possibly also the right wing, before the aircraft up-ended momentarily and then slipped under the water. One man is believed to have escaped the sinking fuselage but no survivors were found. The 98th had lost one of its talented artists along with nine other crew men.

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Due F-111 RAAF

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City of ALBUQUERQUE

Also "Piledriver"