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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.
Shoo Shoo Baby (B-17) Anthony L. Starcer, (September 16, 1919 – June 9, 1986) was an American soldier and artist during World War II, known for his nose art work.. Retiring as a sergeant in the US Army Air Force, Starcer was a line mechanic and artist for the 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), of the VIII Bomber Command, Eighth Army Air Force, based at Bassingbourn, UK in 1942–43.
To carry on the traditions and commemorate the history of the AVG, aircraft of the USAF 23rd Fighter Group carry the same "Shark Teeth" nose art of the AVG's Curtiss P-40 Warhawks, along with the "FT" (Flying Tiger) tail code. The 23rd Fighter Group's aircraft are the only United States Air Force aircraft currently authorized to carry this ...
This was done after pilots saw a photograph of a P-40 of No. 112 Squadron RAF in North Africa, [15] which in turn had adopted the shark face from German pilots of the Luftwaffe's ZG 76 heavy fighter wing, flying Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighters in Crete. (The AVG nose-art is variously credited to Charles Bond [16] and Erik Shilling.)
No. 112 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force.It served in both the First World War and Second World War and was active for three periods during the Cold War.It is nicknamed "The Shark Squadron", an allusion to the fact that it was the first unit from any Allied air force to use the famous "shark mouth" logo on Curtiss P-40s.
Hal Olsen is an American artist living in Albuquerque, New Mexico.He was a U.S. Navy aviation mechanic working on autopilots who also worked at Los Alamos National Lab as an artist for official bomb designs.
By rubbing its nose, Neil overstimulates. With his hand close to razor sharp teeth, shark expert Neil Harvey attempts tonic immobility in a large reef shark.
Working with the British Government and the Armed Forces, traditionally the Official War Artists' schemes have been overseen by artists (including Muirhead Bone) and art historians (including Kenneth Clark and curators from the Imperial War Museums). Yet so too have the British Armed Forces discretely appointed their own war artists to ...