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Re: FAA aircraft with US markings - Torch Nov 1942
Gentlemen,
A plea from neutral Belgium; please no Anglo-French word war....
Remember that my original question was if such Torch approach was used in other (air) operations elsewhere around the globe too.
Evidently the use of 'false' colors was done for serious reasons, and as history has had its course, not much we can do about it.
For those we wish to ponder the matter further in the study room, some excerpts from the The Hague Rules of Air Warfare 1923. But if these were applicable at that time (1942), place and for parties involved, I really don't know. War breaks all too many rules...
ARTICLE III
A military aircraft shall bear an external mark indicating its nation; and military character.
ARTICLE X
No aircraft may possess more than one nationality.
ARTICLE XIX
The use of false external marks is forbidden.
Regards,
Leendert
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