RE: [MV] RE: White Star on US vehicles.

Lars Svaasand (lars.svaasand@valmarine.no)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:26:50 +0200

> "why did some WW2
> vehicles have a yellow band around the invasion star?"
>
> This was a chemcal detector paint , that would apparently
> react instantly to
> a sniff of chemical attack. I have always wondered whether it
> would actually
> work or not?
>

I believe the yellow ring is just an 'early version' of the white ring,
seen most often in the North Africa/Italy campaign. The chemical detector
paint
was brown, and covered the area _between_ the ring and the star.

-Lars, Norway

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