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Posted: 5/6/2015 2:40:24 PM EDT
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Have not seem most of these. Thanks for posting! Wish we could go back to the nose art days.
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Posted: 5/6/2015 2:40:48 PM EDT
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CoC prevents me from posting "Cherokee Strip"
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Posted: 5/6/2015 2:44:05 PM EDT
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My grandfather worked on this B-24 !WARNING NSFW all be it historical photo! http://www.pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/b-24/42-40348/b24-twin-niftys-noseart.html#axzz3ZNx9Mre0
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Posted: 5/6/2015 2:44:40 PM EDT
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A couple of years ago there was a nose art exhibit at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio. Lots of cool original panels and a number of examples of some original artwork done by Walt Disney that air crews were free to use in the war effort. One of the best exhibits I've ever had the pleasure of seeing.
As a nation we would never even think of doing that these days. Very sad to see how far we've fallen. |
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Posted: 5/6/2015 2:48:01 PM EDT
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A lot of pictures of WWII airplanes with nose art hanging on the walls of Air Force squadrons has been taken down and thrown away in recent years. Class plaques deemed "not PC" were even brought out back of the building and broken apart and thrown in the dumpster.
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Posted: 5/6/2015 2:50:42 PM EDT
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The Commemorative (stupid, PC name change from Confederate) Air Force Museum in Midland Texas has an amazing collection of original nose art...
They came from the manager of a scrap yard after WWII...he liked the nose art, so he would have his guys cut the panels out using chainsaws before the planes were scrapped, and he stacked them in his barn...eventually the CAF got them all, and painstakingly conserved and preserved them, and hung them in a special climate controlled area of the museum... Amazing bunch of nose art, as it was....they have a nice book with all of them in full color, and descriptions and stories.... |
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Posted: 5/6/2015 2:52:35 PM EDT
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I wonder how many guys got in trouble for beating off on the flight line.
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Posted: 5/6/2015 2:53:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: CoC prevents me from posting "Cherokee Strip" |
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Posted: 5/6/2015 2:53:56 PM EDT
[#9]
Good stuff!
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Posted: 5/6/2015 2:56:18 PM EDT
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I didnt even think about the COC so i guess a IM is coming my way LOL
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Posted: 5/6/2015 3:06:42 PM EDT
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It shouldn't, it's Art work after all. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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CoC prevents me from posting "Cherokee Strip" She's on page 4. 
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Posted: 5/6/2015 3:16:51 PM EDT
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Those are very cool
Sadly, those in todays military would several careers
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Posted: 5/6/2015 3:21:40 PM EDT
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Those are very cool Sadly, those in todays military would several careers Shit, even in WWII it was an issue, some busy body of a bitch General's (or Admirals, I forget which) in the Pacific, convinced her P whipped hubby to make the aircrews take them off (at least the scantily clad chicky ones) the aircraft.... Col. Kurtz quote again for the win... Kurtz: We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene! The limp wristed PC powers to be in the military now would shit themselves if an aircraft had nose art like this on it.... |
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Posted: 5/6/2015 3:25:30 PM EDT
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Anybody help me out with the meaning of this one?
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Posted: 5/6/2015 3:29:52 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryMonkeys on a flying carpet. Humorous take on what the aircrew thought of themselves? |
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Posted: 5/6/2015 4:04:20 PM EDT
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From an era when there were a lot less pussys then there are now.
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Posted: 5/6/2015 4:11:39 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/6/2015 4:11:44 PM EDT
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These are great. Bring back nose art like this
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Posted: 5/6/2015 4:30:44 PM EDT
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well fuck me running. I know the first pic, the B25G. "Draggin' Ass". An older guy that hung out in the gun store in the 1970's. Wore a hat with the name embroidered on it. Had the same picture in his wallet. Told me that the name came from the bad habit of carrying way too much ordnance on takeoff. Note that the bird is way up-gunned. The old guy said it was a sin to come back with any ammo left. I still have a letter his buddy J. H. Doolittle sent him - he gave it to me and told me it night be worth something someday - said "Jimmy did not sign autographs" Been a long time since I saw that dragon. Thanks for the link |
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Posted: 5/6/2015 4:33:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/6/2015 4:50:27 PM EDT
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thanks for posting OP
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Posted: 5/6/2015 5:51:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Monkeys on a flying carpet. Humorous take on what the aircrew thought of themselves? Quote HistoryQuoted: Monkeys on a flying carpet. Humorous take on what the aircrew thought of themselves? Thanks! I can see the carpet now that you've said it, but I was stumped. |
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Posted: 5/6/2015 5:57:55 PM EDT
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Could all pilots have nose art on their planes or were only a few allowed?
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Posted: 5/6/2015 6:01:02 PM EDT
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Nowadays you'd see a Dickbutt nose art.
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Posted: 5/6/2015 6:03:19 PM EDT
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They can't write "fuck" on their airplanes because it would be obscene.
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Posted: 5/6/2015 6:06:29 PM EDT
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This one is my Grandmother. She "hung out" with this B24 crew while she was working in SF during the war.
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