Re: [GZG] Vehicle ID
From: John Leary <john_t_leary@y...>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 16:48:49 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [GZG] Vehicle ID
As every bonber gunner knows, there were only three
types of fighters over Europe, Bf109 (Inline engine),
Fw190 (Radial engine), and P38s (Twin boom).
Bye for now,
John L.
--- Robert Bryett <rbryett@mail.com> wrote:
> My Dad was an RAF pilot, so I feel I have to remind
> the list of the
> broad black & white "invasion stripes" painted on
> allied tactical
> aircraft from 1944 so that all the myopic pongos on
> the ground might
> recognise which planes were friendlys... Relying on
> ground troops'
> aircraft-recognition skills could be dangerous, as
> many a pilot of an
> early P-51 mistaken for a bf109 could attest.
> Friendly fire goes up
> as well as down.
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