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03-09-2007, 08:51 AM
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 | WW2 US Vehicle Marking-- In Yellow? The white star in white ring marking for US vehicles is well-known (e.g. on the hood of jeeps). However, in several recent re-enactor vehicle parks in Belgium, I have seen vehicles with the star, the ring, or both in YELLOW. I am informed that this is correct for the period, but never having seen it before, I am wondering. During what period or what operation was the marking in yellow used? Thanks. Doc |
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04-09-2007, 01:26 AM
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 | Doc, I'm not the best person to answer this but the yellow ring would relate to the Torch landings in North Africa. No idea about the yellow star.
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04-09-2007, 02:22 AM
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| Discussed it here however did not have time to see if the definitive answer evolved. http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/allied-...ite-stars.html
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04-09-2007, 12:31 PM
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__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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04-09-2007, 01:49 PM
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| What about white on a yellow background?  All right this is rather extreme! Anyway I was under the impression that white and yellow were interchangeable, depending on availability. 
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04-09-2007, 02:03 PM
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Presumably these jeeps are an example of the stuff. Might also be worth noting that a yellow or white star in black and white photos would show up the same tone. Closer analysis of even quite familiar black and white pictures recently seems to be turning up even camo schemes that have been almost lost in the monochrome process. Cheers, Adam.
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04-09-2007, 11:01 PM
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| Re, the gas detecting paint I have some doubts. - I wasn't aware it was applied to US vehivlces - it was normally a 6" or 8" square - I never saw it applied eo late in the war.
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04-09-2007, 11:31 PM
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| Trying to think of the book it was in mate, something I flicked over a week or two ago while looking up something else...perhaps??. In the meantime this chap (who appears quite sensible) seems to be referring to it in a Normandy or Italy context, and specifically regarding Jeeps: markings.
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