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Vintage Aircraft Nose Art (Motorbooks Classic) | 
 enlarge | Author: Gary Valant
Publisher: Zenith Press
Category: Book
List Price: $26.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 141900
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 10.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0760312087
Dewey Decimal Number: 629
EAN: 9780760312087
ASIN: 0760312087
Publication Date: January 12, 2002
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Product Description
Here is an unprecendented collection of the unique art that graced military aircraft in World War II and the Korean War. Applied by amateurs or professional artists like Vargas and Brinkman, the art typically featured alluring women whose charms belied the deadly cargo the crew hoped to deliver to its targets. Hundreds of examples are shown in a combination of archival photos from the wars and current photos of artwork in museum collections. Fully captioned with aircraft type and unit assignment.
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 It is just as the title says August 23, 2008
This is a book of black-and-white photos of nose art on vintage aircraft, mostly bombers, and mostly from WWII. The cover and about 10 pages are in color. Some of the planes have a bit of historical info, as well.
The nose art ranges from tame to more risque, some of the latter ultimately got censored by the military. Lots of women wearing little or nothing forms the majority of the artwork, and the aircraft names range from bland, such as "Enola Gay" to double-entendres, such as "Sack Time".
It's a pretty interesting collection.
 Made the perfect gift for a history buff. September 12, 2007
This book gave great photos of airplane pin-up girls, would recommend for any historic airplane buff.
Loved this book July 20, 2007
Great buy...this is the only book I have found that includes Ice Cold Katy in it....very hard nose art to find...buy it, you will love it.
 Nice book August 24, 2006
Great pictures here, a pitty that the most of them are in B/W but in general they're great.
This book is very similar to "Aircraft Nose Art: From World War I to Today (Motorbooks Classics) by Jeffrey Ethell" that in fact is better, but the couple would be the perfect buying!
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Vintage Aircraft Nose Art August 31, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Excelent monarge of vintage photos of aircraft & crews with jackets displaying art of the times. Full color photos.
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