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Nose art.
- Thread starter Big J
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For the Korean War, any book covering the US involvement will have images of nose art as it was so prevalent.
Warren Thompson's "Korea Part 2: The Air War" is not a bad place to start. I have quite a few photos and am happy to post a few here if you're interested.
Thank you for your reply, the book looks interesting, I will try and get a copy. If you have photos that you could post, that would be great! Thank you!
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Ready for Duty comes to mind first, for WWII and limited Korean War photos...the internet is a much better source though....
My immediate recommendation would be "Aircraft Nose Art from World War I to Today" by Jeffrey L. Ethell and Clarence Simonsen.
It's a fantastic book full of colour plates and is an enjoyable and easy read too. The bulk of the book focuses on WW2 and Korea - and then goes on to illustrate how the more contemporary style looks today (airbrushed - which I don't like at all, nor the less tasteful/vulgar subjects).
If it's more the WW2 pin-up art you want to see (and I know some around here don't approve of it, but happily I don't count myself among them) - as they appeared by the artists and then how they were adapted to nose art by the USAAF - then I can highly recommend "For The Boys - the racy pin-ups of world war II" (Collector Press). It's a very colourful book with no text, just photos (and many of nose art photos, many in colour), so it makes a great coffee table book.
And it's not so racy. Just great pin-up art by a swath of top artists of the time and genre.
Both are worth the money IMO and are great reference books.
It's a fantastic book full of colour plates and is an enjoyable and easy read too. The bulk of the book focuses on WW2 and Korea - and then goes on to illustrate how the more contemporary style looks today (airbrushed - which I don't like at all, nor the less tasteful/vulgar subjects).
If it's more the WW2 pin-up art you want to see (and I know some around here don't approve of it, but happily I don't count myself among them) - as they appeared by the artists and then how they were adapted to nose art by the USAAF - then I can highly recommend "For The Boys - the racy pin-ups of world war II" (Collector Press). It's a very colourful book with no text, just photos (and many of nose art photos, many in colour), so it makes a great coffee table book.
And it's not so racy. Just great pin-up art by a swath of top artists of the time and genre.
Both are worth the money IMO and are great reference books.
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Facebook has a "nose art" page you may want to check out
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