The Snapshots in Time Collection

Nose Art "Honey" on B-25 Mitchell Strafer, 345th Bombardment Group, Pacific Theater, WWII

Nose Art "Honey" on B-25 Mitchell Strafer, 345th Bombardment Group, Pacific Theater, WWII

Nose art titled 'Honey' decorates the solid gun nose of a B-25 Mitchell strafer, its twin forward-firing machine guns visible below the cockpit. The 345th Bombardment Group's 'Air Apaches' flew heavily armed strafer B-25s on low-level attack missions against Japanese shipping and airfields in the Pacific, personalizing their aircraft with hand-painted pin-up art as a hallmark of squadron identity and crew morale. Project: 218266