Yeah, "The Dragon" was the the topper of WW2 bomber art... Hard to believe she wound up as aluminum ingots... I have a couple post-war pictures of her somewhere in one of my refs, vandalized, sitting on her tail, minus engines (the nacelles were just chopped off at the wing, and left lying on the ground), outside the main gate of scrapyard at Kingman, AZ... The caption to one explained the yard operators left her out there on display as long as they could, before they were forced to cut her up..
B-24J-185-CO 44-40973 "The Dragon and His Tail" 64th Bomb Squadron, 43rd Bomb Group as she appeared on Ie Shima in 1945..
Now if youre gonna include later era aircraft, for me and fighters a tie has to go up for Cherry Girl and P***** Galore (a James Bond film charecter in Goldfinger), two F-105s that had their naughty nose art placed over the inflight refueling boom recepticle. I'm sure the boom operators loved fueling up those Thuds.
Heh... Dunno about later ones, but maybe.. The Korean War had some awesome artwork too, especially the B-29s..
I've seen the afore-mention "naughty artwork" you speak of on one of a pair of F-16s that refueled off us while I was flying Space-A back from Germany on leave, and hitched a ride on a tanker.. Turned out the Boomer was a home-boy and called me back there to see it.. Looked like it was straight outta Hustler, man.. lol...
That was the early 80's US Military, though... "Sensitivity Training" back then was refering to a trigger-squeeze technique and you could still smash the yellow bird's ****in' head... Squadron, Group, and Wing Commanders would all be fired, busted to E-Nuthin', then shot, brought back to life, and shot again over that kind of stuff these days... *Sigh*...Ain't hardly worth goin' t' war no more...