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
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.
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.
Great photos! Can you tell me more about your great uncle and where he was stationed? I'm working on a nose art book, and would like to use these in his name if you were agreeable? Thanks!
Great photos! Can you tell me more about your great uncle and where he was stationed? I'm working on a nose art book, and would like to use these in his name if you were agreeable? Thanks!