WW2 Nose Art Pictures

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  1. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

    Bomber command crew of D. for DONALD "DUCK" Halifax
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  2. Kiwi REd One

    Kiwi REd One Junior Member

    Found!

    These would appear to be various different Hurricanes belonging to No 40 Squadron SAAF that was serving in the Middle East in 1942

    The 8 different "gremlins" appear to be identical to those included in the linked article. The plane type, location and artwork all match.

    Jack Orpen
     
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  3. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

    Airspeed Oxford of Beam Approach Training (BAT) Flight
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    German Stuka(?) Sicily Mickey Mouse wielding an axe riding a bomb
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  5. Kiwi REd One

    Kiwi REd One Junior Member

    The axe weilding Mickey Mouse emblem is on a Fw 190F fighter bomber, that probably belongs to either Schnellkampfgeschwader 10 or Schlachtgeschwader 2, the only two Luftwaffe ground attack units equipped with Fw 190's that were in Sicily in mid 1943.

    Elements of these two ground attack/fighter-bomber units were used to form Schlachtgeschwader 4 in Italy during October 1943 (note the axe weilding Mickey Mouse emblem at top of the page): Luftwaffe Units

    As you can see in the link below the nose art was later used on Schlachtgeschwader 4's Fw 190's in Italy:
    Focke Wulf Fw 190F8 1.SG4 White 7 Viterbo Italy Feb 1944 0A
     
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    Ball of Fire The III
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    Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph S Tate Jr, Sergeant Edward J Rubin and Technical Sergeant Gottrell H Wright 93rd Bomb Group with their B-24 Liberator (serial number 42-40128) nicknamed "Ball of Fire the III".

    'COMBAT PERSONNEL OF THE "TRAVELLING CIRCUS" L to R: Lt. Col. Joseph S. Tate, Jr of St. Augustine Fla. Squadron Commander, has completed 32 missions, incl. Rome and Ploesti raids. Col Tate holds the Air Medal, 4 Oak Leaf Clusters to the AM, the DFC and one Cluster. SGT. Edward J. Rubin, of Portage, Wis. (near Madison), tail gunner, has completed 12 missions, incl. the Rome raid. Holds the AM and 2 Oak Leaf Clusters. In the raid on Foggia he destroyed an enemy aircraft. T/SGT. Gottrell H. Wright, of Warigold, Miss, near Jackson, completed 18 missions, incl. Rome, Ploesti and the airplane works near Vienna raids. He holds the AM and 2 Oak Leaf Clusters..


    IWM FRE 785
     
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  10. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

    Mickey's Marauders unknown RAF Bomber crew
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    IWM CH 18759
     
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  11. brithm

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    B-24 Bomber(?) Commando with hammer and sickle in star with Turkish flag
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    CH 18140
     
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  12. brithm

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    [Man] Friday parachuting with bow and arrow, C-47 Dakota
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    IWM CH 17460
     
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    Red A #1 Dakota C-47 USAAF
    Plane Commander Capt. Toker
    1st Officer Lt. Cristina
    Navigator Lt. Haydex
    Aerial Engineer S/Sgt. Relson
    Radio Operator Pvt. Rucker
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    IWM CH 18048
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    IWM CH 18049
     
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    brithm Senior Member

    Cuba Libre, Mosquito(?) [Blutto edit P-38 Lightning]
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    IWM CH 17373
     
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  17. brithm

    brithm Senior Member

    "SO WHAT THE HELL" coat of arms R.A.F. Fighter Command Officer pointing to the unusual "coat of arms" he designed himself and painted on his Hurricane. The pilot is a New Zealander A.B. Austin, 1941
    Bad Luck Crest designed by fighter pilot, Bad Luck Crest, a form of modern heraldry designed by a fighter pilot who escaped from Dunkirk during WW2 Fighter Command by
    Mary Evans Picture Library. Historical images. Historical archive. Images of history. Images. Pictures. History. ILN. Stock. Photos Fine Art. Illustrations.
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    IWM CH 360
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    IWM CH 359
     
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  18. brithm

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    Nose art Jester 'V' suit of cards Hearts, Apades, Clubs & Diamonds. (Harlequin)
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    IWM CH 4375
     
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  20. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Might be an RAF Lightening I.
     

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