Whether pilots and crews drew pinups or painted sharks on their military aircraft, something was often painted to personalize WW2 planes. In Germany, things regarding nose art were different from ...

Though nose art endured for a few decades, in the latter half of the 20th century, military units increasingly transitioned from personalized paintings on aircraft to a more standardized approach.

Don Allen admires his handiwork as a "nose art" artist of World War II when he painted fanciful designs like this one, dubbed "Blondie," on the noses of U.S. fighter planes.

Grounded military planes, nose cones soar again as art The Boneyard Project: Massive canvases . Kathleen Allen Feb 2, 2012 Feb 2, 2012; 1 of 7 ... World War II fighter squadrons.

Most World War II nose art has been lost. Shortly after the war ended, the artworks were painted over as planes were resold, or more often they ended up in the junk heap.

Donald Allen, of Rocky River, was a crew chief for fighter aircraft during World War II, and as a creative sideline painted designs on the "nose" of those planes, including cartoons and ...

Artist Fernando Cortez has been working on the nose art of a World War II vintage bomber B-25 bomber, nicknamed the "Yellow Rose," which belongs to the Commemorative Air Force and is hangared at ...

The nose of an A-10 Thunderbolt II displays a painted set of eyes and teeth over the aircraft’s 30-mm GAU-8 Avenger rotary cannon during the 74th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron’s deployment to ...