![]() It also contains important ‘peculiarities’ such as where certain gun emplacements are located, other special aircraft features, as well as wing and length measurements. Each poster details a large clean sky and background image of the specified aircraft located as the main top imagine on the poster. ![]() Immediate identification of aircraft, friendly or not, was essential in order for the observer (whether in the air e.g., pilot, gunner, or patrol observer, or on the ground, e.g., anti-aircraft crew) to determine his next course of action (e.g., acknowledge, attack, evade, or report). These posters also could cut down precious second pilots, bomber gunners, and naval gun crews would have to ID a plane flying towards them intern saving their lives by shooting first.Įach poster provides the silhouettes, dimensions, and relevant information to educate both air and ground personnel in aircraft identification. It was believed these posters alone could save countless lives from friendly aircraft-on-aircraft or friendly anit-aircraft fire. World War II saw some of the first introduction of these aircraft ID poster to prevent friendly fire and more accurate plane recognition in combat. or Wing, Engine, Fuselage, Tail, Undercarriage, Peculiarities was a system set up for the purpose of aircraft identification and recognition. and other Allied pilots, bomber crews and Naval personal to identify Allied and enemy aircraft. ![]() This poster was posted as a training tool as well as an in theater ID poster to help U.S. Naval Aviation Training Division October 1942. This original ‘RESTRICTED’ aircraft identification poster was published by the U.S. Moore USS Enterprise (CV-6) Air Group Collection SECRET 1945 Iwo Jima D-Day TYPE ONE Mission Photographs WWII Omaha Beach D-Day Normandy Artifacts Wright - 342nd Bomb SquadronĤ60th Bomb Group Mission Raid Photographs Pilot Aircraft Recognition Posters (SMALL)Ĭombat Artwork of Lt. Soviet Pe-2 Dive Bomber Wreckage Fragmentsġ942-44 U.S. Newton 719th Bomb Squadron Italy Bomb Raid Target Photosģ3rd Photo Recon Squadron Sgt. WWII German Soldier Letters & Death Cards German Ju-87 Luffwaffe Wreckage Fragments German FW-190 Luffwaffe Wreckage Fragments German Ju-52 Luftwaffe Aircraft Wreckage Fragment 2 KIA (Shot Down 2-22-44) Naval Carrier Pilot (Fitzgerald) Identification Postersġ941-44 KIA Named German Soldier's Combat Lettersġ944-45 WWII Sgt. Surrender & Propaganda Air Dropped LeafletsĪerial Recon & Bombing Raid Mission Photographs WWII B-25 & B-24 Pacific Theater Mission Photographs WWII B-29 Navigator XXI Bomber Command JAPAN Target Maps WWII 461st Bomb Group B-24 Mission Photographs WWII 1940 Battle of Britain German He111 Aircraft Wreckage WWII Operation Market Garden 82nd Airborne WACO CG-4 Gliderġ5th Air Force WWII B-24 Liberator 460th Bomb Group Mission Photos WWII 8th Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress Wreckage Fragment WWII D-Day Airborne Sainte-Mère-Église Normandy Artifacts WWII Fort Benning Airborne Infantry Training Maps WWII 987th Field Artillery Battalion D-Day James L. WWII 101st Airborne Division "Market Garden" Paratrooper Artifacts WWII 5th Air Force - New Guinea campaign Recon Photos ![]() NEW: WWII 1944 10th Recon Photographic Group Aerial Mission Photos Original WWII Allied Maps - European Theater Original WWII Allied Maps - Pacific Theater RARE: WWII Battlefield Recovered FIRED Bullets - Casings - & Shrapnel
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