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Toni Robin
American Red Cross Worker
Fenton, Australia & New Guinea
Attached to 380th Bomb Group
I have been unable to locate very much information
about Annette 'Toni' Robin.
If you have any knowledge or information on
her,
I would be delighted hear from you.
Annette Robin, known as "Toni" to her friends, was
formerly a commercial artist in New York City before joining the American Red Cross.
Her distinctive cartoon-style
artworks helped to boost the morale of air crews and ground pounders in
the basic facilities of the Australian bases and the even more testing environment of
bases in New Guinea. Ms Robin must have been actively engaged in her
nose art painting as early as May-June 1943 since at least one of the
aircraft she painted ("Black Magic") was destroyed in Australia during a bombing raid by
the Japanese at the end of June.
Female nose art painters were a rarity and those working in the far-flung bases of New Guinea
even more so. Further information is sought to clarify if Toni Robin was based at Fenton, Australia
or at Port Moresby, New Guinea.... or both!
© Ray Bowden
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