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Originally Posted by Larry Hickey
Thanx to one of our EoE researchers, a new photo (to me) has surfaced showing the tail of a crashed He111 in a British salvage dump. It clearly has three vertical white or pink stripes on the rudder. This was a type of marking applied to rudders and upper outer wings of several LW bomber geschwader for the mass raids around 15 September 1940.
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I have/have seen hundred if not thousands of photos of He 111s involved in BoB, but very-very few had stripes like these. Is the meaning of them understood? Was it some sort of quick air-to-air identification marking? Just curious...