This photograph captures the personalized nose art 'Belle of the 20's,' painted on a Douglas A-20 Havoc attack bomber of the 312th Bomb Group during World War II. Crews often named their aircraft and commissioned pin-up style artwork, both as a morale-boosting tradition and as a way to give each airframe a distinct identity within the unit. The 312th Bomb Group flew A-20 and later A-26 aircraft in low-level attack missions against Japanese positions in the Southwest Pacific as part of Fifth Air Force, and surviving photographs of nose art like this one preserve a vivid, personal dimension of the group's wartime service. Project: 218267