From: Bruce Beattie (bruce@eecs.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 03 2004 - 11:21:25 PDT
Hi Dave,
I believe that it was just a matter of having good manners. No loud
shouting, brawls,
indecent language, etc.
Bruce MVPA 23824
Dave wrote:
> Hi Lance,
> I would like to know more about the invasion stars since I found one
> on the hood of my 42 GPW. Do you know anything about the use of BAR
> codes during WWII?
> Dj
>
> bolton8@juno.com wrote:
>
>> I think the Invasion star was used in the invasion of Italy as well,
>> that would explain it. NIGE
>>
>> I read a short article on this sometime ago. Unfortunately I
>> cannot
>> find the article at the moment, so it will be from memory.
>>
>> Towards the end of the North African Campaign when the U.S. Air
>> Corps
>> had taken over the skies there was a serious problem with British and
>> Canadian armor being shot up by over enthusiast American pilots. The
>> American's didn't take the time to correctly identify their target, they
>> went by the rule of thumb: "Either it's got a white star or it doesn't".
>>
>> It was one of the Canadian Armor Regiment's that came up with the
>> idea
>> of putting the Yank white star inside the British roundel. This was
>> first used in North Africa by this one Canadian unit. (My missing
>> article gives the exact unit which started this.)
>>
>> The practice spread through other Canadian Regiment's and was first used
>> during the invasion of Sicily (10 July 1943). The concept proved so
>> successful that before the invasion of Italy it was standardized
>> throughout the Allied Forces.
>>
>> LANCE
>>
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