Space crew, on the other hand, will ask you to do escort duty, full on attack against ennemy fleet or directly ennemy ace, rescue some scientist or deliver. You'll get to drop some rescue gear for downed pilot, do a bit of intel on the side and fight an ace if there is one. His fighter plane’s nose depicted the hand from his own amputated arm making the “V for Victory” sign. Bomber crew will mostly ask you don't, surprise surprise, bomb a target.
The award for all-around best nose-art in World War II has to go to the RAF’s James Archibald Findlay MacLachlan, who lost an arm to a combat injury early in the war and thus had to fly with a prosthetic limb. Others tried, but were ultimately (and obviously) better suited to fighting the war than designing the nose of their B-24 Liberator. Some crews definitely brought their A-game to the art form, like the crew of this B-29 Superfortress. Or it was used to brag that they could keep their girl in the air, with whatever they had lying around. Nose art was also used to complain (as all troops do) as a way to deal with the monotony of deployed life, the lack of supplies, and/or the frustrations of the crew to keep their bird flying, as seen by Malfunction Sired by Ford. Thumper here took the war personally and marked the name of each city it bombed. Next time you watch Dumbo with your kids, remember that Dumbo dropped ordnance on Japan and was said to be fairly accurate.īomb icons depicted the number of missions flown over the enemy. The RAF’s Ian Gleed flew a Supermarine Spitfire featuring Geppetto’s cat Figaro.Īmerican pilot and Doolittle Raider Ted Lawson flew a B-25 Mitchell Bomber over Tokyo called the Ruptured Duck, an image of an angry, sweating Donald Duck wearing pilot headphones in front of crossed crutches. Walt Disney famously looked the other way (in terms of copyright infringement) for much of the art done in the name of winning the war, notably on bomber jackets and nose art. Popular cartoons were also featured on World War II-era planes. And sometimes, when your war record is long enough, it’s okay to let the world know you’re watching the clock.
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