Aircraft Identification

[Subdeacon Joe]

[Cheatin Charlie]

I remember when I was in the first or second grade at school we had black rubber airplanes to play with.  I do not know for sure but always suspected they were war surplus models for identification purposes.  That was my suspicions when I got older.  Found some!

https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/370835-wwii-spotter-recognition-aircraft-models/

 

[watab kid]

at one point i had a chart similar to that , mostly japanese [lanes as my father was in the pacific , dont know where that ended up , 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

When I joined the Ground Observer Corps (Call sign Juliet  Mike One Four Black on a dedicated land line) in 1858-1958 we were given  book of silhouettes with the description of each plane on a the back of each plane, one plane to a page.  Fifty planes to a book, three books.  When I left they took the books back.

 

We were volunteers looking for planes from every country you could imagine.  Going to save our country from Godless Communism.  I'm beginning to think we failed.

[Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life]

Musta been early in WWll or even before. No Mustang shown!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

12 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

When I joined the Ground Observer Corps (Call sign Juliet  Mike One Four Black on a dedicated land line) in 1858-1958 we were given  book of silhouettes with the description of each plane on a the back of each plane, one plane to a page.  Fifty planes to a book, three books.  When I left they took the books back.

 

We were volunteers looking for planes from every country you could imagine.  Going to save our country from Godless Communism.  I'm beginning to think we failed.

They could publish the silhouettes in 1858?

[DeaconKC]

Don't go pickin' on Forty Rod, he was busy teaching Keith Richards how to play the guitar back then!

 

See Forty, I done stuck up for ya!

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Big Sage, SASS #49891 Life said:

Musta been early in WWll or even before. No Mustang shown!

 

1939

 

https://oac.cdlib.org/ark:/28722/bk0007v0b0b/?brand=oac4