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Old 6th November 2022, 16:50
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Re: American aircraft photos 8 - 12

Army-Navy Bulletins and their Inspectorates were primarily concerned with colour standards and specified detail markings like data panels, as long as serials were correct colours and sizes (but even these varied occasionally like red on some C-47s) it seems the actual presentation was left to the factory, in this case Curtiss St. Louis (Lambert Field).
The blocks concerned were (A-25)---3 blocks from 41-18774 to 41-18873, and AT-9s in blocks 41-11939 to 41-12279 / 41-5745 to 41-5894 / 42-56853 to 42-57152, so some were Fiscal Year 1942.
The "dots" were no doubt a factory peculiarity.
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Nick

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