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Hard to Find
Planes Camouflaged
LONDOX—Mr Noel Monks, th*
Au.stra.Jian journalist who is now correspondent
for the "l>aily Mail" with
the 1 loyal Air Puree in France, says
that
both
tho
Nazi
and
Allied
aeroplane
K
ar (;
now
camouflaged,
which
takes all tho eolor nut of aerial
warfare.
There
are
no
lunger
glaring
color
schemes,
such
as
P.aron
Richt
of en's "Hod Circus" and
the
American
"Yellow
Peril"
of
the l;tst
war.
Members of the Ti.A.F . he
says,
paint
mascots
on
their
plans,
notably
l'opeyo,
.Mickey
Mouse
and
Donald
Duik
The
Australians
universally
favor
their
national
kangaroo.
These
mascots,
however.
buried
in
the heavy i-amotlage, fan only be discerned
v\ h<-n one
is standing
beside
the
machines.
The general camouflage schema
ma kes it ilinicult t„ distinguish
friends from iocs, ho states, although
some Gorman planes can readily be
identified l.y their square-cut wings.
Our men are becoming expert in recognising
machine s by the sound of
their engines even when the plane*
are invisible in the clouds.
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