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.
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]
"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 below.
"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.
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 2,000
"Night Strike" - John Jack Krause
"By Moonlight" - John Jack Krause
- "Jungle Jim Goes to War" - Donald Wong
- "No Trains Today" - Stan Stokes
- "Ruhr Valley Invaders" - N. Trudigan
- "Night Intruders" - Lynn Fox
- "The Valliant Clan" - Glenn Illustrators
- "A-26C" - Joe Milich
- "Night Intruder" - Ron Cole
- "Douglas A-26 Factory Promo" - Geoff Harper
- "Reynolds Bombshell" - Steve Cox