Lake Murray's B-25
Lake Murray's B-25 (41-12634) the night it was pulled from the lake.
My father, Roger V. Lovelace was one of the pioneers of Nose Art during World War II. He designed the Ruptured Duck artwork and painted it on the B-25B bomber that participated in the Doolittle Raid over Tokyo. The following is from the book Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (Random House pub. 1943) : "One morning I came out to my plane and found that somebody had chalked the words 'RUPTURED DUCK' on the side of the fuselage. I grabbed Corporal Lovelace, a gunner I knew, and asked him to paint some sort of design on the ship. He's a good caricaturist. Lovelace got out his stuff and painted a funny Donald Duck, with a head-set and the earphone cords all twisted around his head. Lovelace did a swell job in blue, yellow, white and red. Then he added something that gave all of us another laugh. Under Donald Duck he drew a couple of crossed crutches." Here is the "Ruptured Duck" that we painted.  It is on display at North Lake.
Scott is working on our B25 nose art of "Panchito".	"Panchito" is a restored B25-J that still flies!.  You can read more about it here. The final version that is  now hanging in our bay.
Here is the painting replica of our new station patch.	Our next B25 nose art will be "Killer B"...another B25 that is still flying.  Check back soon for the completed version!