I love airplane nose art. There are some great videos on YouTube about the boneyards they flew them to for dismantling, and looking at the planes, it was interesting to look at the change over time. It could be me, but it seemed as WWII went on, the nose art got more and more sexually graphic...
They probably got to the point where they simply said “No female/male sex organs except for T&A, or sex acts. Paint what you want and keep flying missions.”
I wonder what the Krauts thought of the nose art on our planes? Something tell me their pilots appreciated a good nude.
Late in WWII, the more graphic nose art was censored by adding bikini bottoms, etc. Probably some command general’s wife got the vapors.
I was told that nose art got more violent, vulgar, and sexual as the war went on because of the increasingly fatalistic worldview of the crews.
They knew they were gonna die, so what’s the point of restraint?