September 22nd, 2014 -- by Bacchus
Booby Trap
Now, this is my kind of airplane nose art:
From Dr. Faustus’s Hedonic Miscellany.
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I’ve read that many of the best nose art pictures are nearly never printed, because so many of them were ‘racy’. Hundreds of male G.I.s, thousands of miles from home – I would be surprised if the art was anything but, at least in that time period.
From memory, during the European campaign the bomber crews were allowed to put all Kinds of stuff on their planes, because so many would get shot down so soon. As better fighter escorts and continental bases allowed for more protection and lower loss rates, the nose art had to be cleaned up. I’m really hoping that there’s a secret cache or two of nose art photos that will see the light of day at some point.