Heavy Camouflage on Aeroplanes at Front
MASCOTS OF PILOTS LONDON, Nov. 7. The correspondent of the Daily Mail with the Royal Air Force in France says that German and Allied aeroplanes now are camouflaged, which takes all the colour out of aerial warfare. No longer are there glaring colour schemes, such as those of Baron von liichtofen's “Red Circus” and the American “Yellow Peril’' in the last war. Officers of the Royal Air Force paint mascots on their aeroplanes, notably “Popeye the Sailor," “Mickey the Mouse" and “Donald Duck." Australians universally favour their national kangaroo. The mascots, however, are only discernible buried in heavy camouflage, when a person is standing i beside the machines. The general camouflage scheme from foes, although some German aerofrom foes, although some Geran aeroplanes are readily identifiable because of their square-cut wings. Men of the Royal Air Force are becoming expert at recognising machines by the sound of their engines, even when they are invisible in clouds.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 280, 27 November 1939, Page 7
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