B-26 Nose Art

photos of B-26 bombers Lil Lass, Uncle John, Red Light Rose

By Stephen Sherman, Aug. 2002. Updated April 16, 2012.

The fourth set of nose art photos was provided by the niece of John Netherland, an engineer who worked on the roads and runways in Germany and France.

Click on the thumbnails shown here, for larger pictures. The original photographs seem to have been taken with an inexpensive box camera like the common Kodak Brownie; they do not have great resolution. My favorite of this set is the close up of "Uncle John"

322nd Bombardment Squad-450th Bomb Group

Invictus

Is Everybody Happy?

Pappy's Pram

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