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Re: The painting art of US aircraft and censorship?
The decoration art of V-2 rockets disappeared once the rockets were sent to their mission and exploded (one must really ask why they bothered to paint them at all!) The well-documented noseart of the US aircraft was more permanent and far more interesting phenomenon.
The US aircraft noseart was also sometimes clearly erotic (religious conservatives and some women would certainly have considered some paintings as being quite near to pure pornography - the US aircraft noseart exposition would be surely censored in some places like Saudi Arabia). In the wartime there certainly was not "political correctness" in US air units limiting the artistic freedom but for the PR-department of USAAF and official propaganda it may have been some kind of issue.
Thus I wonder if the photos of US combat aircraft with this kind of artistic decoration passed through the censorship or were proudly published as artistic masterpieces in official publications and newsreels during the wartime (after all the nude art has been part of artistic heritage of western world since the ancient Greek/Roman times).
I also noted that in some planes there were painted normal photographic images of women with just faces and first names and not at all erotic - I wonder if these paintings represented the wives or well established girlfriends of the pilots?
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