The history of nose art

[@John-mf6ky]

Nose art, victory marks etc are so fascinating. Especially the WW1 and WW2 stuff imo.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Yes!

[@trevorbauer3754]

Hi Jenn you should come to oshkosh Wisconsin during the eaa airshow. Just love your channel

[@WalkwithHistory]

We would love to!! Thank you for the suggestion and for watching.

[@joeschaefer1752]

Thanks for your service!

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you for that, it is always my honor to have served my country. Thank you for watching!

[@mydaddysgreeneyes]

That show looked like so much fun! Loved all the info and always enjoy watching you enjoy yourself.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thanks so much!

[@JohnDoe-uc8xo]

Jenn congratulations on becoming a Seahawks pilot. If you haven’t been picked up by a major airline we at American could use a squared away pilot like yourself. We are hiring 30-45 pilots a month. A lot of old guys like myself retiring. It’s been the best career ever. Love your channel. History is so important.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you so much. Fed Ex is always after me too, a woman pilot does help! It’s an amazing lifestyle and one I truly miss but I want to be home with my kids for now as they grow up. Much love and respect to you. ♥️

[@TribeTaz]

I love air shows. I attend the Cleveland Air Show every year. Great video, Jenn

[@GpaEric5931]

Love air shows, specially the Blue Angels. Nose art is always interesting. As always grateful for your videos Jenn. Appreciate you. Cheers y’all.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you! We’ve been wanting to make this one for a while. 😁

[@wirecutter59]

Even more stuff I didn't know about! Thanks!

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you for watching

[@justicews]

Learned a lot. Army retired here.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you so much for watching!! And your service. 🇺🇸

[@tommyanderson-filmmaker3976]

Great job Jenn.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you Tommy!!

[@ioanekirarahu951]

My good friend's father was an Army pilot during WW-2. But he never saw combat, which disappointed him greatly. He mainly was a ferry pilot during WW-2, moving new planes to their units, moving existing planes from one base to another, to where they needed to be, etc. Mainly he flew B-24s. I'll never forget one nose art story he told me personally. He was at a certain USAAC base once when a visiting B-24 made a layover. But the base commander was extremely unhappy with the scantily-clad nose art on this bomber. So he ordered the local nose artist to paint clothes over the young lady depicted on the sides of the nose of this B-24. However, the nose artist, in collusion apparently with the crew, used water-soluble paint to cover the "obscenity." The base commander, upon inspecting the newly clothed young lady on the bomber, gave his approval. Then after the transient crew took off and left that base, the next rain shower they flew through washed the water-soluble paint off the young lady, and returned her to her original glory. My friend's father also never saw combat during the Korean war, as by then he was in the Strategic Air Command, and eventually flew B-47s, and even became a B-47 instructor pilot. When Viet Nam eventually rolled around, he adamantly said, "Send Me," so he could have some combat experience in his long USAAC/USAF career. So he flew C-130s in and out of those dirt landing strips so close to the fighting in 'Nam. (you know, where these C-130s had to take off using JATO packs). As a result of that experience, he exclaimed: "No More? " to flying in combat. I in turn then served my own career in the Air Force, but I never saw combat either.

[@WalkwithHistory]

What a great story about the nose art. I love it! Thank you for your and your family’s service. 😁

[@seanwiley558]

While you were flying the skies, I was boots on the ground building air bases and bridges during OIF/OEF. Great Info as always! Can Do!

[@WalkwithHistory]

Love it!!! Thank you for what you did. Thank you for watching.

[@hondomurray7927]

Well done Thank you for your service

[@WalkwithHistory]

Our pleasure!

[@jeffwalther3935]

An excellent overview of the curiously novel practice of aircraft nose-art presented by one of the best representatives and presenters for the great subject. Such a unique-to-aviation practice is, imho, nothing but youthful, joyful, exuberant colorful artistic expression placed defiantly upon something so unlikely, somehow becoming fitting, then even coming to better define the ongoing definition of what is always coming to be called American(s) and even western civilized mankind, (although the Germans did it a lot more than we did) and humanity itself. Bravo maestro producer. Your golden wings and technical mastery were preeminent throughout.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Well said. Thank you!! 😁🙌🏻

[@F4FWildcat]

US Navy 1977-1981, AMS P-3C Orion maintainer. Good channel shipmate.

[@WalkwithHistory]

That is awesome. Thank you for watching fellow sub hunter!!!! 🤘🇺🇸

[@noseart1]

You may have seen my book on this subject and dozens of warbirds flying at airshows. Your always welcome to stop by the shop here near Charlottesville. Nice job. Cheers .

[@WalkwithHistory]

I would love to. Thank you for the invite and thank you for watching.

[@gregdiamond6023]

This fascinating Jenn! At the AFB here have men and women who fly, from what I’m told, the only active fighter jet to allow nose art. The A-10 Thunderbolt. I think the art is uniform within a squadron. My guess is, because it’s used for infantry support. You’d know more than I about the plane’s history.

[@WalkwithHistory]

There are parameters that each squadron and service adheres to for their aircraft art. It has definitely changed through the years. Thank you for watching.

[@fixfalcon2628]

I recently visited the USAF Museum in Dayton, Ohio. You would LOVE it.

[@WalkwithHistory]

We definitely have to go there too. I want to see the Memphis Belle.

[@fixfalcon2628]

@@WalkwithHistoryThey did a wonderful job restoring it!

[@TribeTaz]

​@WalkwithHistory Jenn, Boxcar is there too. That museum is amazing

[@fixfalcon2628]

@@TribeTaz *Bockscar

[@TribeTaz]

@fixfalcon2628 thank you. Fat fingers and not proof reading. Lol

[@ruthyvonne5240]

You are one cool lady, I am enjoying all of your videos

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you for watching. We appreciate your support. ♥️🤘

[@jhollie8196]

Been told paint on an aircraft can change the weight of the AC. Before painting Nose Art, is the additional weight of the paint taken into consideration? Thanks for your awesome work. Semper Fi

[@burtpanzer]

At a time when camouflaged planes might increase one's chance of survival, some German pilots of WWI relied on their flying skills alone and added easily seen designs and bright colors to taunt the enemy, which accumulated with the best of pilots painting his entire plane red, but that's another story.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Interesting!

[@JennaCee]

I've seen some of that nose art. Great video Jenn! I take it you've been to Reading Air Show?

[@WalkwithHistory]

I haven’t. But we try to go to any airshow that we are close to!! I love your profile picture. Thank you for watching.

[@JennaCee]

@@WalkwithHistory Thank you. And it's the largest WW2 airshow in Reading PA

[@StarGazer568]

The Triangle K on the BUFF was the group code letter for the 379th Bomb Group (Heavy) in WWII.

[@WalkwithHistory]

That is cool!!! Thank you.

[@StarGazer568]

@@WalkwithHistory, you're welcome!

[@StarGazer568]

@@WalkwithHistory, just in case you didn't know, the Triangle denotes 1st Air Division of the VIIIth Bomber Command, a circle denotes the 2AD and a square the 3rd. This symbols appeared on the tails.

[@F4FWildcat]

I wrote a novel in 2022 and 23, one of the main characters was a female Seahawk commander.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Based on me??!! ♥️🤘just kidding. That is awesome!!!

[@rickwiles8835]

What's the title of your book? Has it been published??

[@F4FWildcat]

The Missiles of August Just search the title as a novel by Tom Andrews@@rickwiles8835

[@ablewindsor1459]

Waiting on the Title.....and the Nose Art You depicted . . .

[@F4FWildcat]

The title is "The Missiles of August". I finished it and published through Drat2Digital. You can find it by searching the title and adding a novel by Tom Andrews. Turns out, missiles is a big hitter in search engines since things in the Red Sea heated up. So you have to add my name to the search.@@rickwiles8835

[@danielhardwick4074]

You are so much fun

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thanks!! 😊

[@mistervacation23]

When are you going to video on the "Lady be Good" ?

[@WalkwithHistory]

I would love to tell that story. I need to be at the Air Force Museum to find some artifacts: Lady Be Good is a B-24D Liberator bomber that disappeared without a trace on its first combat mission during World War II. The plane, which was from 376th Bomb Group of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), was believed to have been lost-with its nine-man crew-in the Mediterranean Sea while returning to its base in Libya following a bombing raid on Naples on April 4, 1943. However, the wreck was accidentally discovered 710 km (440 mi) inland in the Libyan Desert by an oil exploration team from British Petroleum on November 9, 1958. A ground party in March 1959 later identified the aircraft as a B-24D

[@mistervacation23]

@@WalkwithHistory absolutely I know the story I just thought, you would do a very good video on it, after watching some of the ones you make

[@WalkwithHistory]

@@mistervacation23 Well it’s on the list now! 😂 Thank you for the idea! 😁🙌🏻

[@mistervacation23]

@@WalkwithHistory Great thanks !

[@FrankMittag]

So, nose art is mentioned at the beginning, but....

[@WalkwithHistory]

But we found what noseart we could at the show. 😂

[@williampark974]

The Memphis Belle 's pilot painted his girl from Tennessee on the nose of the B-17.

[@WalkwithHistory]

Yes we have an entire short from her grave in Memphis. Margaret Polk.

[@rbrtjbarber]

Jaws?!? It's called a "Shark mouth!"

[@WalkwithHistory]

We called it Jaws sorry not sorry. I am a pilot. Thank you for watching.

[@vanmust]

The history of the US is so short that it can be fitted on the side or tail of an aircraft

[@WalkwithHistory]

🤔

[@mikewall7450]

too much BS talking not enough "nose art" that wasn't even really that "interesting"

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you for watching…and commenting 😊

[@adeelahmed5837]

Very nice to know that u r ex aviator.kindly conduct a documentary on F86, F104 and viper demo team

[@WalkwithHistory]

I will put it on the list. Thank you for watching.

[@troykauffman3963]

Good stuff Jenn, and as always thank you for your service ma’am .🫡

[@WalkwithHistory]

Thank you so much for watching!!! We appreciate your support and it is our honor to serve our country.