From: gribouille (gribouille@brutele.be)
Date: Sat May 20 2006 - 04:46:16 PDT
For what I know about that :
white star with a broken circle around it = Sicily landing and these
vehicles had these markings during the Italy campaign and later.
white star with a circle around it = Normandy 1944 and these vehicles had
these markings during the France campaign and later.
white star only = vehicles who were build after these campaigns or who
served otherwhere.
You are right about the airplanes D-day markings too.
They also used a yellow star instead of the white one during the Sicily
landing period ...
Regards,
Mithril
Ford GPA Sn 7177 Dod 30 jan 1943
http://homeusers.brutele.be/mithril
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kees Stravers" <kees.stravers@iae.nl>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 12:59 PM
Subject: [MV] White star and circle D-Day vehicle marking
> Hi,
>
> This is my first post on this mailing list. My name is Kees and I own
> a CCKW. I am writing an article for a small magazine about it and I
> have a question about the markings on it that I haven't been able to
> find an answer for.
>
> My truck was made in 1945 but the person who restored it put a white
> star on it without a circle around it. But I was told that just
> before D-Day the allies put circles around the stars on their
> vehicles and black and white stripes on the planes to tell them apart
> from possible imposters from the enemy. I also have seen white stars
> with broken circles around them on vehicles.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on the history of the white star on the
> vehicles during Wold War II? Did the circle appear mid 44 and was
> removed again later perhaps? Many thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
> Kees Stravers
> http://vrza.dse.nl/wc52/
>
>
>
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