Improved American Plane Markings
(Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, Aug. 30. A new design for wing insignia lias been adopted for the United States Army Air Forco planes in the SouthWest Pacific. The design is a white star on a circular field of blue, with white rectangles at each side of the circle. A red border encloses tho design. This is the second change in the United States Army Air Force wing marking. The. planes carried first a white star against a circular blue background with a red dot in the centre of the star. The red dot was taken out because it resembled the red dot on Japanese planes. The new American design is visible at 60 per cent, greater range than .those of tho Japanese or Nazis. When far away it assumes the shape of a long narrow bar, in contrast to the Japanese insignia, which maintains its circular appearance.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 68, Issue 206, 31 August 1943, Page 4
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