RE: RE: RAF Spitfire Bonnet Badge

[Mike Welch <mikew@turbopower.com>]

Maybe it was because the Germans used crosshair sights and the English used
concentric circle sights for targeting?

Mike Welch
'68 +/- Spitfire MkIII
'60 Jaguar MkII
http://home.turbopower.com/~mikew 

-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur H. Smith [mailto:arthurhsmith@compuserve.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 4:40 PM
To: spitfires
Subject: RE: RE: RAF Spitfire Bonnet Badge



Reid  asks
> why the British had to paint "targets" on
>the wings and fuselages of their planes... were the German pilots really
>that bad at aerial gunnery? :-)

No its just that each airforce had a distinguishing mark on the plane to
stop friendly fire from getting them. the red white and blue I 'think'  8^)
 are the Brit colors.......

PS I'm a newbie to the spit list hydee hoo all..

the arthur