Art Gallery
This page is dedicated to showcasing some of the fabulous art and illustrations made of the Invader over the years. All works shown here are copyright of the original artists. Whenever possible I will include links to artists website so that you can purchase prints from them.
WWII
R. G. Smith
R. G. Smith was a notable engineer who worked for Douglas beginning in 1936 and worked on all of the Naval aircraft that were produced by Douglas and /McDonnell-Douglas for the next 20 years. He also began drawing and painting Douglas aircraft and has produced over 2,000 drawings and illustrations. You can see more of his work here (we are not affiliated with this company in any way): [1]
"386th Bomb Group" -R. G. Smith
This image depicts two bombers of the 553rd Bombardment Squadron of the 386th Bombardment Group.
"Train Yard Raid" -R. G. Smith
This drawing depicts a train yard raid carried out by bombers of the 386th Bombardment Group. There is a glaring error in Mr. Smith's illustration, however. None of the bombers of the 386th Bomb Group carried those letters on the nose. The letters used by the 386th were on the side of the fuselage. The letters depicted in this image, FX1, etc. were on planes that were assigned to the Florence AAB Training Base.
Geoff Harper
"Douglas A-26 Factory Promo" - Geoff Harper
This piece was painted by Geoff Harper for Douglas to use in promotions advertising the new A-26 Invader. I don't have much information beyond this regarding the artist. I also don't have a very high resolution photo of this piece, hence the bad quality. If you know of this artist or have more information, please let me know.
Stan Stokes
"No Trains Today" - Stan Stokes
N. Trudigan
"Ruhr Valley Invaders" - N. Trudigan
Douglas Castleman
Douglas Castleman is a modern professional artist who does illustrations and paintings of airplanes and nature scenes. You can find his work here: [2].
A-26 Drawing - Douglas Castleman
A very nice illustration of an A-26 wearing incorrect Squadron Code markings. The squadron code F8 was the 733rd Bombardment Squadron, 453rd Bombardment Group - They flew B-24s, not A-26s.
Korea
R. G. Smith
(See entry for WWII art for bio and link.)
"13th Bomb Squadron Anniversary" (1986) - R. G. smith
This drawing was made specifically for the 1986 reunion of the 13th Bomb Squadron Association. Only 300 of these drawings were printed. The IHF has #273 in our collection. This image comes directly from our copy. This drawing is essentially a modification of the 386th Bomb Group image above.
Vietnam War
John Jack Krause
John Jack Krause was a pilot of the A-26A/B-26K Counter Invader during Vietnam and flew 150 mission along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. He painted both of the below paintings in a limited run of 999. The IHF has #169 of both paintings in our collection.
"Night Strike" - John Jack Krause
"By Moonlight" - John Jack Krause
Donald Wong
At present I have little information on Donald Wong. I do not know of any websites representing his work or how he relates to the subject matter presented. If you have any information about this artist, please let me know.
"Jungle Jim Goes to War" - Donald Wong
- "Night Intruders" - Lynn Fox
- "The Valliant Clan" - Glenn Illustrators
- "A-26C" - Joe Milich
- "Night Intruder" - Ron Cole
- "Reynolds Bombshell" - Steve Cox