Pinocchio 1943. Ice cream cones represent Italian targets. The key indicates the aircraft’s 21st op Thank you Steve!

well done nose art from a Milt Caniff character in Terry and the Pirates, Miss Burma, an A-20 in the 86th Bomb Squadron which flew out of numerous bases including French Morocco, Sicily, Italy and France.

https://www.ima-usa.com/products/original-u-s-wwii-miss-burma-47th-bombardment-group-a-2-flight-jacket?variant=29074643877957

https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/usa/aircrafts-2-3/a20/a-20b-41-3178-47th-bg-italy/

Christened PALLAS ATHENE in honor of the WACS who had served, and nicknamed "The GI JANE". She had a long active service and flew 3 missions on D-Day, grouping with whomever they could find and hitting secondary targets, because the weather was so bad.

Pvt 1st Class Emma Utter of the Women's Army Corps painted the nose art

https://www.worldwarphotos.info/gallery/usa/aircrafts-2-3/b24/b-24-44-50505-pallas-athene-the-gi-jane-392bg/

http://www.b24bestweb.com/pallasathene4.htm

http://www.b24bestweb.com/pallasathene6.htm

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=849677510532880&set=pcb.849677780532853

A truck that is getting an impressively large Vargas pin up painted on

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10237507764736296&set=gm.10161507597099472&idorvanity=14020804471

Only b/w photos were taken of this Ju 87 'Stuka' it back in WW2, so Revell used their artistic license to give it a dramatic paint job. Thank you KIM!

Well, this is just incredible nose art on this B 25

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=24347851908250355&set=pcb.10162254709314472

A nose art artist! Finally learned of one new to me! All of the Lockheed-Vega Ventura fuselage art was painted by one artist - Randy McCraw.

https://rcafno128squadron.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/disney.pdf

modern versions of nose art, with Star Wars characters some just new versions of WW2 Disney military insignia / patches - and with cool mission symbols on the scoreboard, by Phil Postma

I just posted the original of this last week, the submarine USS Baya, SS 318 https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2025/11/very-unusual-and-out-of-ordinary-disney.html

https://www.geeknative.com/53708/phil-postmas-star-wars-the-art-of-war these were made in 2015, before AI art

First I've seen a Civil Air Patrol plane with nose art, and the Flying Tiger motif of the shark tooth grin

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10107863296856888&set=pcb.1499032280268618

for my post on Civil Air Patrol Disney insignia and patches: https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/07/a-cool-little-disney-psa-decal-on-door.html

more nose art! For B-25s of the 310th and 12th Bomb Groups

12th Bomb Group, 83 Bomb Squadron, B-25C in North Africa. 

 The "Pluto" nose art was unique to the plane and not the 12th BG.  

  https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10227172055597506&set=pcb.2047626338742540

B-26 "Fifinella"

391st BG, 575th BS.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3108279672739907&set=gm.911178176332977

Sterling WWII Fifinella WASP Womens Air Service Pilot 

The Fifinella design from Disney has been a favorite of mine https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search?q=fifinella

and Gremlin Gus, an adorable character 

https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/09/gremlin-gus-ii-has-that-name-due-to.html

https://waspmuseum.org/avenger-news/the-infamous-fifinella-by-julia-lauria-blum/

hell of a variety in the scoreboard: paratrooper drops, medevac, glider tows, cargo hauls

I guess the top row is troop drops

Damned if I know what the train is for, cargo?

The flag is for Medevac

But the camel was for the Over The Hump runs 

So, I don't know what the donkey was for

And the bottom row is towing gliders

https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/decoding-wwii-plane-nose-art

Here's something odd... Capt. Belin's cool Jeep had 3 cartoon characters of art, there a lot of photos of, and they even got the back of it when it was towing a trailer!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/michael-ann/3781920993/

XXII Corps 67th Signal Battalion Head Quarters - 3rd vehicle
XXII Corps arrived overseas on 30 December 1944 and served to the end of the war

I first came across this Jeep in June of 2020, and here's more photos of it... https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-memphis-belle-jeep-with-great.html 

it's the Memphis Belle, and I still haven't figured out what is going on with the huge curved front bumper to grill piece with the nose art  

Or the two bottles of wine

Million Airess ... I love it, from a photo by David Yarrow, Sinclair Oil

https://www.artnet.com/artists/david-yarrow/sinclair-oil-color-a-tRqHh8v9lSFtt5oa6-iyyA2

I'm loving the nose art on this A 10.... thank you George!

I get a kick out of the mustache!

https://militarnyi.com/en/news/a-10-thunderbolt-ii-is-too-early-to-retire-finds-new-role-as-drone-hunter/

I rewatched Con Air... because wow, what a great cast!