73rd Fighter Squadron, 318th Fighter Group
https://mailtribune.com/archive/fighter-group-holds-medford-reunion
Looks like a professional artist drew up that art, http://fortcrookipms.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/South%20Pacific%20P-47Ns.pdf says that the artist was Jim Weir for the pin up nose art of that group, https://live.warthunder.com/post/493860/en/ says it was John Brunner
Lt John Brunner was born in Newton, Iowa, he came to California as an infant and settled in the San Fernando Valley in the late 1920s. While attending Van Nuys High School, Brunner joined the circus and traveled throughout California during his summer vacations.
He earned an acting scholarship to study at the Pasadena Playhouse but had to forgo his plans after he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II. A fighter pilot, Brunner and his fellow pilots saw the flash of the atomic bomb explosion over Nagasaki as they flew 40 miles offshore.
After he was discharged, Brunner worked as a commercial artist for Market Basket for five years.
He and his wife then studied a year at the Sorbonne in Paris, and upon their return to the United States, Brunner continued his career as a commercial artist.
http://www.axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?365
https://live.warthunder.com/post/493860/en/
Bar flies. Great pic
ReplyDeletethanks! I still can't see that there is a letter "s" on that word, I can see FLI and E, then it looks like an A
DeleteMy father, Lt John C Redfield, painted the nose art on that plane.
ReplyDeletetell me more! Did he paint Bar Flies or Sack Happy? Did he paint the nose art on other planes? Is there some information about him online?
DeleteI have no reason to give credit to anyone rather than anyone else, but I need some corroborative source, the more information the better!