Behind every painted nose on a WWII aircraft was a story - of camaraderie, humor, and determination. This video uncovers the tales of the airmen and artists who brought these designs to life, blending ...

Fernando Cortez breathed life into iconic art he created 33 years ago. Over the past week, he's restored the luster to a blond beauty, adorning the nose of a B-25 Mitchell bomber named Yellow Rose ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's called nose art. The images that aircrew painted onto their bombers and fighters during the Second World War as good luck omens ...

The nose art united bomber crews and "gave them an identity". Examples of the work are now displayed at the 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at Thorpe Abbotts, near Diss, in south Norfolk.

Nose art caught on among American aviators during World War II with images of racy pin-up models and cartoon characters, according to the paper. It died in the early 1970s when Air Force Chief of ...

In a display of defiance, many individual pilots used nose art to challenge the system. They often altered their aircraft without permission from the command, effectively thumbing their nose (art ...

The B-24 Liberator four-engine bomber was a popular palette because of its large expanse of relatively open painting space on the nose of its massive fuselage. The nose art on the Michigan B-24 ...

a few German pilots painted eyes and a closed-mouth frown on their Roland C.II reconnaissance aircraft. They called their fat-bellied Roland biplanes Walfische (Whales). The nose art was jocular ...