I was recently researching this topic and am particularly interested in the representation of women with regard to weaponry/war machines and vice versa (e.g. women as nose art, the Enola Gay being named after a woman but also things like Miss Atomic Bomb). I was wondering if anyone knows any good resources to further research this? (books would be great) also artistic representation of women and war whether that be on the home front, as munitions workers or any other role they took on or women artists that depicted war (particular artist recommendations, facts or resources would be really appreciated)
There are a few fairly straightforward histories/collections of nose art (e.g. Jeffrey L. Ethell and Clarence Simonsen's The History of Aircraft Nose Art, the USAAF Nose Art Research Project), and Hattie Hearn also looks at wall art on 8th Air Force bases (noting that pinup girls were the most popular subject), but it sounds like Tracy E. Bilsing's “Mors ab Alto: The Dangerous Power of Women's Images in Second World War Nose Art,” EnterText 6, no. 2, would probably be most relevant.