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During Operation Desert Storm the unique phenomenon of decorating aircraft with personalized artwork reached a zenith. Though nose art had been reborn during the 1980s, peacetime does not provide the ideal climate for survival of the genre. It usually takes a war. By the time the short conflict with Iraq ended in early 1991, almost every flying machine in the theater was decorated with fanciful icons-some cute, some raunchy. When the aircraft returned home, the nose art disappeared almost overnight with the usual official disapproval, much to the disgust of the crews.
Much inspiration for Desert Storm nose art came directly from World War II, the heyday of thiS unique expression of military life. Pilots and crews wanted to emulate the previous generation who had used metal skin for canvas all over the world. Though some color photography from World War II has been available,· on the whole readers have had to be content with looking at a black-and-white photo, then trying to fill in the color mentally..............
Название: World War II Nose Art in Color [MBI]
Автор(ы): Ethell, Jeffrey L.
Издатель: MBI Publishing company
Год издания: 1993
Язык: english
Формат: PDF rar
Кол-во страниц: 100 pages
Размер: 42,8 Мб
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