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Perhaps the most enduring nose art of World War II was the shark-face motif, which first appeared on the Messerschmitt Bf 110s of Luftwaffe Zerstörergeschwader 76 ("76th Heavy Fighter Wing") over Crete, where the twin-engined Messerschmitts outmatched the Gloster Gladiator biplanes of No. 112 Squadron RAF.
Crew of the Memphis Belle with the Petty Girl nose art. An image of a Petty Girl talking on a phone was used as the "nose art" on the famous World War II B-17 Flying Fortress, Memphis Belle. In 1959 a vector rendition of a Petty Girl derived from a 1956 Esquire calendar was displayed as part of the diagnostics for a SAGE air defense computer.
B-17G Flying Fortress, 91st Bomb Group has nose art of a Fifinella on it. Dahl's gremlins were subsequently used by Warner Bros. in several World War II cartoons, some involving Bugs Bunny and another called Russian Rhapsody, which featured scores of Russian-accented "Gremlins from the Kremlin" attacking an aircraft piloted by Adolf Hitler.
As a member of the 334th Fighter Squadron, Pisanos' plane (P-47D-23-AAF Serial Number 42-7945) was coded QP-D and had an emblem of ‘Miss Plainfield’ painted on it as nose art [1] He scored his first 2 confirmed victories over northeastern Belgium escorting US bombers while he had another 2 non-confirmed ones around the same time. He was ...
The crew back from their 25th operational mission. All were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.. The Memphis Belle, a Boeing-built B-17F-10-BO, manufacturer's serial number 3170, USAAC Serial No. 41-24485, was added to the USAAF inventory on 15 July 1942, [7] and delivered in September 1942 to the 91st Bombardment Group at Dow Field, Bangor, Maine. [8]
Phillip Faraone/Getty ImagesPhillip Faraone/Getty Images Gypsy Rose Blanchard has a new look. Since her release from prison in December 2023, Gypsy, 32, has made a few changes, including a hair ...
On 9 November, Sarah Genao posted side-by-side images of the Glinda toy package, ... The dolls with the misprinted labels, originally priced between $20 (£15) and $40 (£31), were seen on sale on ...
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