During World War II, the United States Air Force had very specific rules about the art painted on its aircraft, but those rules found a general exception that basically allowed pilots, crew members, and maintenance personnel to paint a wide range of artworks. As expected, many of those works featured women in very suggestive poses. In some cases, the artists decided that their pin-up girls completely abandoned their clothes, and today we are going to share several examples. Needless to say, the gallery is very NSFW.
Everything we know about these images comes through the portal Vintage Everyday. They belong to the Flickr user profkaren, who has more than 23,000 photos in her profile (many of them appear to be family), and apparently they were taken by someone in the 99th Bombardment Squadron, under the 9th Bombardment Group. If my eyes don't deceive me, the planes are B-29 Superfortress, assigned to the Pacific campaign. Some people will say the drawings are "politically incorrect" today, but personally, if I am going to die pierced by Japanese shrapnel on another continent, the least they can grant me is to die next to the drawing of a naked woman...
The Gallery
