NEW WING INSIGNIA
U.S. PLANES IN PACIFIC (Recd. 7 p.m. Sydney, Aug. 30. A new design for wing insignia has been adopted for United States Army Air Force planes in the South-west 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 the 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. '?*.e 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 the Japanese or the 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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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 205, 31 August 1943, Page 5
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