The Best Nose Art of WWII - Telling their Stories

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  • @TJ3
    @TJ3  2 роки тому +5

    Thanks for watching! Hope you guys enjoy it. Thanks again to FlyPlatypus, Jaegermeister, and _Invincible for the skins used here. And before you guys ask, yes I am planning to bring more German and British planes to this series in coming episodes. Join my newsletter for awesome bonus content and WWII stories! Join here: tj3history.ck.page/tj3history

    • @abandonedaccount123
      @abandonedaccount123 2 роки тому

      i love this series!

    • @steveshoemaker6347
      @steveshoemaker6347 2 роки тому

      Excellent Thanks🇺🇸

    • @brokenbridge6316
      @brokenbridge6316 2 роки тому

      Keep this series up friend. I've been really enjoying these video's.

    • @jamesrowell1174
      @jamesrowell1174 2 роки тому

      What about the BELL she is the most famous B17

    • @kristoffermangila
      @kristoffermangila Рік тому

      For the next Nose Art Stories episode, how about including the most famous B-26 Marauder, "Flak Bait"?

  • @netherwolves3412
    @netherwolves3412 2 роки тому +27

    The Dottie Mae story was really cool!

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +5

      Agreed! Might do a video solely on her.

    • @ruskyrosco1054
      @ruskyrosco1054 2 роки тому +2

      I haven't had an urge to visit California in over a decade but I'd love to see the Ms. Mae if I ever do get back.

    • @dixiecyrus8136
      @dixiecyrus8136 Рік тому +1

      Can you imagine how pissed her first pilot might have been hearing about that crash?😮😮

  • @HenryProductionsYT
    @HenryProductionsYT 2 роки тому +10

    Love that you mentioned Yankee Lady. Got to fly on it a few months ago, the crew were real nice. It always holds a special place in my heart and it was an experience I'll never forget. Love this new series!

  • @benwelch4076
    @benwelch4076 2 роки тому +8

    I really enjoy hearing about little known snippets of history and this is what you provide. So cool, thank you for the video, Cheers.

  • @JRRTOKIN420
    @JRRTOKIN420 2 роки тому +5

    Such a huge (not Big Dick huge lol) fan of these episodes. Totally love the stories behind these beautiful art pieces.
    Keep them coming please.
    And thank you for giving us these historic war period gems.
    Priceless.

  • @itsjustyas7724
    @itsjustyas7724 2 роки тому +13

    130 missions, never turned back, no injured crew? That sure is some witch craft

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +4

      Agreed!

  • @markg780
    @markg780 2 роки тому +8

    Absolutely love these, many thanks for the hard work you put in to give us these great video’s. 😁👍

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +3

      Thanks!

  • @RogueAce93
    @RogueAce93 2 роки тому +4

    Great work as always, TJ!! I have a few suggestions for future nose art stories:
    Douglas Bader’s Hurricane Mk.1 while in command of 242 Squadron.
    Neel Kearby’s P-47 Thunderbolt “Fiery Ginger” (one of its .50 cal machine-guns is on display at the Nat’l Museum of the USAF).
    Charles MacDonald’s P-38 Lightning “Putt Putt Maru.”
    Jim Howard’s P-51 Mustang “Ding Hao.”

  • @BullGator-kd6ge
    @BullGator-kd6ge 2 роки тому +3

    I’ve seen Yankee Lady in person at the 2012 Jones Beach air show. Very lovely aircraft

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +2

      Very cool!

  • @johnmoran8805
    @johnmoran8805 2 роки тому +2

    Thanks! I really enjoy this series! Keep it up!!

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +2

      Thank you!

  • @ac9356
    @ac9356 2 роки тому +2

    Love to see more videos on re-enacting missions ad that like famous missions to ones that we might probs not know about or has been forgotten

  • @Spitfiresammons
    @Spitfiresammons 2 роки тому +4

    Very good on famous nose art please do the next part of RAF RAAF and RCAF bomber command nose art.

  • @garretvaughn7936
    @garretvaughn7936 Рік тому

    Dotty Mae was restored at Vintage Airframes in Caldwell, ID, USA, and made her first official public appearance at the 2017 Warbird Roundup held at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, ID. I am a volunteer there, and it was a great experience to see her fly. She’s an absolutely beautiful plane, one of the most detailed and meticulous restoration jobs ever! Dotty Mae is at the Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, CA, but is up at Caldwell fairly regularly for any updates she may need. Wonderful story!

  • @rogerdailey9357
    @rogerdailey9357 2 роки тому +2

    Excellent presentation what a clever idea and very well presented. I talk about nose Art in my video but that’s another story I wish to say hats to you.

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +1

      Thanks Roger!

  • @denverfowler5290
    @denverfowler5290 Рік тому

    LOVED EACH STORY T . J . 👍 !

  • @markbrown7103
    @markbrown7103 2 роки тому +1

    I subscribe to your channel I think you’re a great historian you show a lot of good and a lot of bad but that’s the way war is I love these old airplanes I have every since I was a young man now I am an old man and still love them love your show appreciate it very much every time a Mustang shoots a German fighter down I say blow him up blow him up ha ha lots of laughs but a great show thanks so much for all of your videos they’re all cool I love it👍🏼👍🏼😆😆❤️

  • @gilbertlozano902
    @gilbertlozano902 11 місяців тому

    Awesome videos!!!!❤🇺🇸👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

  • @viperpilots4587
    @viperpilots4587 2 роки тому +1

    Ye Olde Pub, great story behind that B-17 of the 379th Bomb Group.

  • @roadking99jokerst60
    @roadking99jokerst60 Рік тому +1

    My father was a ball turret gunner on a B17G. 8th AF,487bg, 839bs. Base near Lavenham, England. He would have liked to see this video. Liberty Belle passed thru here just before it's tragic fire. She had some great nose art.

  • @panzer_de_faust
    @panzer_de_faust 2 роки тому +1

    Those are some sexy nose art u got.
    GREAT WORK ❤️

  • @stevenwilkes5737
    @stevenwilkes5737 2 роки тому +4

    A suggested subject for you... "Frigid Midgit" a P-47 flown by Lt. Jack Hallett who is still living in central FL. A flyable 60% P-47 is being built and will be painted to match his aircraft.

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +1

      I'll check it out!

    • @miteb.decarburetor2656
      @miteb.decarburetor2656 2 роки тому +1

      Where in central Florida is this wonderful aircraft?

  • @derweibhai
    @derweibhai 2 роки тому +1

    Love these, they are amazing!!!!!

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +1

      Thank you!

  • @Goit_Goit
    @Goit_Goit 2 роки тому +1

    Shout out to FlyPlatypus who's animated noseart vid was used at the start.

  • @griffn14
    @griffn14 2 роки тому +6

    There's a B-24J Liberator 'The Dragon and His Tail', but you probably know that. Maybe it would be interesting to make a video about assembly bombers that were painted in very visible "camouflages".

    • @chgr7025
      @chgr7025 Рік тому

      Ironically, the B-24 now flying as Witchcraft was once painted as "Dragon and his Tail". I am having trouble remembering, but I believe it was painted as "All American" before that, but I'm not sure if that might have been Kermit Weeks' B-24 when it was still on the airshow circuit.

  • @johnnypopper-pc3ss
    @johnnypopper-pc3ss 2 роки тому +1

    I've flown on "Yankee Lady" twice at the Reading Air Show.

  • @Nativeat1YT
    @Nativeat1YT 2 роки тому +2

    Imagine if TJ made a book. Great video

  • @tempestfury8324
    @tempestfury8324 2 роки тому +2

    Without question the most famous nose art has to be the shark mouth of the AVG Flying Tigers. That motif just worked brilliantly with the P-40. Although the Flying Tigers adopted it from a British squadron in North Africa, they made it easily one of the most recognizable symbols of the war.

  • @Johnny-tt8zc
    @Johnny-tt8zc 2 роки тому +2

    I went up in the yankee lady at an air show in Reading ,Pennsylvania .
    Although it wasn’t that much when I went up. I’m sure it is more than that now. Parts are getting rare and most are custom made.

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +1

      Very cool!

  • @theallseeingmaster
    @theallseeingmaster 2 роки тому +1

    The B-24 'Southern Comfort III' had at least 51 missions over Europe; I knew her bomb loader when I was young. The nose art wasn't much to behold but with that many missions, there has to be a story somewhere.

  • @ScoutSniper3124
    @ScoutSniper3124 2 роки тому +1

    I love the story of "Dottie May"... from being wrecked showing off to triumphant return as a show girl.

  • @Pwnulolumad
    @Pwnulolumad Рік тому

    7:30 when stunting too hard goes wrong lul

  • @denverfowler5290
    @denverfowler5290 Рік тому

    HEY T . J . and good afternoon ,
    .
    Any future. Stories / Nose Art from the
    P -- 6 1 BLACK WIDOW ( Patrol ) planes ?

  • @Johnny-tt8zc
    @Johnny-tt8zc 2 роки тому +1

    The Mid Atlantic Air Museum (MAAM), in Reading,Pa is restoring a P-61 Black Widow. Not sure how much is left to do on it though.

  • @dovidell
    @dovidell 2 роки тому +3

    don't forget the Sally B , she is the only airworthy B-17 left in Europe

  • @emoryfindley8702
    @emoryfindley8702 Рік тому +1

    As a very young boy I already loved history. I met the father of a friend who served on a B-I7 in the 8th AF. He had a beautiful color book about the 8th that had his bomber “Virgin on the Verge “with a scantily barely dressed young woman on the side. I asked him what that meant? He told me to ask my Dad:)

  • @mickeycogan12
    @mickeycogan12 Рік тому

    Do you have any info on the "Scarlet Harlot"?

  • @paulsilva3346
    @paulsilva3346 2 роки тому

    HEY, I can't wait for #4...

  • @anthonye7600
    @anthonye7600 Рік тому

    I flew on the Yankee lady in 2006. Beautiful aircraft.

  • @antonyholditch8849
    @antonyholditch8849 2 роки тому +2

    It such a pity that they are not used so much nowdays.

  • @AlaskaRailroadGuy
    @AlaskaRailroadGuy Рік тому

    for episode 4 can you add b-17 Wabash cannonball with goofy on it

  • @fromontario6954
    @fromontario6954 2 роки тому

    Very cool!

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому

      Thanks!

  • @bluegirl77777777
    @bluegirl77777777 2 роки тому

    What about 'flak magnet' a b26 marauder

  • @A-Ronnn
    @A-Ronnn 2 роки тому

    Can you please look at the P-47 named Passionate Patsy

  • @MrOchrisius
    @MrOchrisius Рік тому +1

    TJ I hope you see this. It would be cool if you were able to find any info on the actual girls who were painted on the noses and what became of them. Side note I also flew on the witchcraft tribute plane. Once in a lifetime experience.

  • @sandyadkins2637
    @sandyadkins2637 10 місяців тому

    Thank you for these stories I woke in history today old war planes

  • @hansclaw
    @hansclaw 2 роки тому +1

    man, look for the zodiac b-24 squadron, those are amazing nose art, and check for vietnam war era noseart those are amazing too

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +1

      Cool! Will do

  • @lukelemmons1138
    @lukelemmons1138 Рік тому

    With some of these art I surprised your not cancelled. Lol

  • @prowannab
    @prowannab 2 роки тому +1

    There is a B-24 in the USAF museum in Dayton,ohio called the Strawberry Bitch. I have always loved this plane, BUt don't know it's history. I'd love to tho. Please include this AC in a future video.

  • @rjwintl
    @rjwintl 2 роки тому +1

    To be detrimentally honest , my Dad’s nose art in the 5th Army Air Corps on P-40’s and P-38’s were Alberto Vargas quality but we’re also illegal throughout the military and not wanting to be court martialed , he made the other pilots swear secrecy on whom did the nose art !!!

  • @williamhartley1166
    @williamhartley1166 2 роки тому +2

    I met a wonderful guy who had flown on B-17s with the 8th air force. Twice shot down. The first time he was smuggled out of France by the French Underground. The second time he bailed out too low and hit the trees with quite a bit of speed. He ended up in the hospital that time. One plane was named Naughty but Nice. It had a sexy gal painted on the nose. He said the crew had the picture and name on their flight jackets too. They were ordered not to wear the jackets into town so that they wouldn't offend anyone. I wonder if a picture of the nose art exists?

    • @buckodonnghaile4309
      @buckodonnghaile4309 2 роки тому +1

      I knew an RCAF vet that was the sole survivor of a Halifax Bomber crash in France and we found photos of that plane (Corkscrew Charlie) on a Canadian War Memorial website with a whole story about the crew, the plane, and the miracle of him surviving that and then being taken care of and hidden from the germans by the local French villagers. Let's hope the pics you're looking for are out there.

  • @jeffreyknight3884
    @jeffreyknight3884 Рік тому

    Beautiful art work..

  • @lokiwiseyt8608
    @lokiwiseyt8608 2 роки тому

    Do you think you could bring some raaf plane nose art

  • @sjdimuccio2060
    @sjdimuccio2060 Рік тому

    I enjoy this series of Nose art! Do you every find out the artist is who did the painting? My dad was served in WW2 and painted nose art on p-38 and p-51 during the war. He was in 472 fighter squadron.

  • @boss2234
    @boss2234 Рік тому

    Grate works

  • @michaelannen4168
    @michaelannen4168 Рік тому

    Please do a B17G "little Patches"

  • @mblaydoe
    @mblaydoe Рік тому

    How about the "Strawberry Bitch" currently residing at the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum?

  • @Tie_Hodson21
    @Tie_Hodson21 2 роки тому +1

    Need more raf, loads you could choose from!

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому

      Working on it!

    • @FozzyZ28
      @FozzyZ28 2 роки тому

      We don't need the self acclaim as the US, they will certainly never give us the credit we deserve! They won world war 2 despite all the Allies and Montgomery raining them in, we live in their self inflated shadow as does the world. One thing to remember, they didn't win the war of Independence, some intelligent general said that it's not worth the fight. Yet we did burn down the Whitehouse in 1811, cudos! Lol

    • @FozzyZ28
      @FozzyZ28 2 роки тому

      @@TJ3 I do enjoy your channel tho! 👌

  • @Tellyfive
    @Tellyfive 2 роки тому

    I know they can’t save em all but “sold for scrap” just hurts.

  • @wm811
    @wm811 2 роки тому

    Nice clip, but why only USAF airplanes?
    Did they only fought in WW2 ?

  • @rossgage9730
    @rossgage9730 Рік тому

    Never seen a Thunderbolt with a bomb attached to the fuselage where its drop tank should be.

  • @rossmockler7746
    @rossmockler7746 2 роки тому

    How about the world famous squakin chicken b-17 g. Thank you!

  • @faridmukhtarfatah4018
    @faridmukhtarfatah4018 Рік тому

    Miss Fire and her pilot surely didn't misfire

  • @generalspitfire01
    @generalspitfire01 2 роки тому

    When will we get the old pub.... That B-17 has a very strong story

    • @TJ3
      @TJ3  2 роки тому +1

      Hopefully soon! Those aircraft with long resumes can be hard to fit into a series like this because there is so much to talk about! They likely deserve videos all to themselves.

    • @generalspitfire01
      @generalspitfire01 2 роки тому

      @@TJ3 ok.... I just love the story of the ye old pub seeing that during war there are times when enemies can be friends

  • @ligurian728
    @ligurian728 Рік тому

    Live-ery?

  • @skualpascal6684
    @skualpascal6684 3 місяці тому

    le p-38 avec 1 belle faute d'orthographe ! les vinS, les femmes ........ ;-)

  • @garymckee8857
    @garymckee8857 Рік тому

    A friend of mine bought this to my attention once.
    The Americans put naked women on the planes and the Germans put wolf's and vikings and other war like things. 🙃

  • @johnslade9358
    @johnslade9358 2 роки тому

    👏👏👏❤️🇺🇸

  • @PauloPereira-jj4jv
    @PauloPereira-jj4jv 2 роки тому

    Americans had some difficulty to understand that nose arts were present in other air forces, not only the US forces.
    So... you should (at least) mention in your title that this video applies to US aircrafts only...

  • @derweibhai
    @derweibhai 2 роки тому

    Love.t

  • @malaysia_airlines0828
    @malaysia_airlines0828 2 роки тому +1

    O early

  • @peneloperoman2304
    @peneloperoman2304 2 роки тому

    94r04a
    VUR.LIFE