Created by George Petty for Esquire in 1941, the beauty seen here was painted onto the fuselage of this famed World War II bomber
In all 
combat theaters during WWII, there was some form of nose art ... For the most 
part, camouflaging aircraft proved to be relatively easy when seen on the ... the 
pin-up creations of Alberto Varga Gil Elvgren and George Petty.