Nose Art (US)

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Palm Springs Air Museum.Douglas C-47B Dakota (N60154/476423) – Another of the museums regular flying aircraft, this was originally delivered into RAF service with 187 Squadron in 1945. Having also seen service with the Belgian, French and Israeli Air Forces, the museum acquired it in 2003 and it now carries the nose art of USAF DC3 44-76423 ‘What’s Up Doc’
B-25 Mitchell - "Texas Gal". with 75 mm cannon in nose.My dad flew this model out of Yangkai Cina, bombing and strafing shipping in Hong Kong,
"Home Stretch" from the Confederate Air Force Collection. This collection of nose art panels came to the CAF from Minot Pratt, the general manager of the company that was scrapping planes at the boneyard at Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. He had ordered his men to cut out and save the most interesting nose art, which he was supposedly going to put up as a fence around his property. This never happened and he donated the pieces to the CAF in the 1960's.
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World War II Plane Nose Art
A look at the nose art of World War II.
View of the Tillamook Air Museum as seen from US Highway 101
Strangelovecraft
This is not actually a bomber, but the meaning is the same.