Military signs on US army vehicles were upgraded in August 1942 when newly adopted new rules were adopted. New signs, from national downward identification symbols are ordered to be placed on "all motor vehicles assigned to tactical units".
Video U.S. military vehicle markings of World War II
History
US or US letters appeared on vehicles during World War I, United States Expeditionary Force units began arriving in France in June 1917. The War Department vehicle identification marks and identification numbers were painted on the sides. Ambulances The United States Army Ambulance Service carries a red cross and a Caduceus symbol that has been adopted by the US Medical Department in 1902. The War Department's vehicle numbers are placed in vehicles such as part identification marks, SSUs meaning service support units, with 2 or 3 digit numbers eg SSU 525). Between wars, as permitted from 1929, the standard vehicle serial number was introduced. Insignia USA W - ????? (W for the War Department) the first two or first numbers indicating the type of vehicle, the remaining numbers are the sequence numbers. Painted white, is standard. The K prefix is ​​used by the US Signal Corps on certain special vehicles.
Maps U.S. military vehicle markings of World War II
National identification
- Three colored stars, a circle with a blue background and a five-pointed white star with a red circle, which does not touch the blue background. Used before the war and identical with marking on airplanes.
- Three colored stars, corresponding to two colored stars with red circles, that do not touch the blue background.
- The national flag, used mostly on vehicles on a North African landing from November 1942, is painted on the sides of softskins caps and on the front and sides of the armor.
- Two colored stars - a circle with a blue background and a five-pointed white star used in North Africa from late 1942.
- Stars and strips - bars, stars and five-star bars. View services in North Africa, Sicily and to a lesser extent, Pacific SW. Used on a tank with a bar that surrounds the turret with stars on each side. The star is 22 inches in diameter. From January to August 1942 stars and bars painted in a yellow air corps.
Army Regulations AR-850-5 issued in August 1942 ordered a plain white five star, as a national symbol, seen in all cinemas from 1943 and in 1944 was the most common national identification mark. The star point should be facing backwards on a flat surface, upward on the glacis.
In armored units, white stars are often painted or circles around the star are added, to avoid looking like a German cross in the distance. 2nd Armored painted the vehicle number on the side of the turret in yellow for the same reason in Normandy, with a number removed by D 14.
The August regulation of 1942 was passed, when camouflage and concealment exceeded recognition requirements, the national emblem could be dulled, smeared with cheap, cheap, or covered painted solvent petrol.
note: (l) left, (c) middle (right) right
March 1944 Army Regulations grant permission for a national mark to be chosen by their respective service command, allowing the USMC and Air Force Air Force to create their own.
Formation mark
Signs of formation on the 6 inch plate height and 9 inches wide, located in front of the right and left rear, were standard until the end of 1941 when they were confined to staff cars and Jeeps in the Army. Most of them are shield and ribbon with motto.
AR-850-5 Army Regulations issued in August 1942 established a standard bumper code that came in four groups.
Grup 3
Group vehicle serial number
The vehicle serial number is in normal order. Vehicles assigned to headquarters will be grouped with HQ vehicles and given a small serial number. It's normal to adopt convoy serial numbers in logical format, HQ vehicles will be numbered 1-10, First Platoon 11-20, 2nd Platoon 21-30 etc.
With white stencils, height 4 inches, front and rear of vehicle, grouping separated by an inch dash. Groups of three and four may be at the end of the bumper. If put in two paths, Group 1 is above Group 2, and Group 3 over Group 4. A trailer will carry the same bumper number of the derrick vehicle.
Tactical signs
The August 1942 Rule establishes rules about tactical signs:
Divisions, independent brigades, combat orders and combat teams can prescribe tactical signs for their command. Painted on their vehicles may be colored, their location, size and design use a geometric shape to be determined. To be changed in combat zone when appropriate without written record of the system.
Painted on the turret or hull side of Armored Fighting Vehicles (AFV), on bumper halftracks and softskins.
They include:
- One number in the 1st Armored Division in North Africa is painted black with a tactical sign.
- One or two letters and one or two numbers like B-18 or DT-7, as big as possible.
- Triangles, longitudes and circles in different combinations and formats designed to identify vehicles to platoon level.
Name on vehicle
Vehicle names are authorized and used on AFV as a tactical sign, often using names beginning with the same letter to designate vehicles from the same platoon or company.
The names of wars, places, people and girls are common.
Non-formation mark
War department number
The 1929 system of unique war department numbers is allocated by the Army Quartermaster Corps. Until the middle of 1944 the W- prefix for the War Dept was used. Australian-produced vehicles for US use in the Pacific theater have a prefix of U. K-prefix indicating the appointment of the U.S. Signal Corps.
From January 1944, a vehicle in which the machine was pressed to reduce radio interference had S painted after the number of both sides of the hood.
The prefix number indicates the type of vehicle.
For a truck without a hood, the number will be painted on each end of the driver's seat.
99.999 The first jeep has a five-digit number after the prefix, after which the six-digit number.
Army vehicle numbers preceded by US or US ARMY, usually appear on the line above the numbers with the same color and size as the numbers. If there is room, all can appear in a row. For Marine Corps vehicles, replace USMC. Rule 1942 (AR-850-5) requires the US to be 5 or 6 digits.
Rule 22 April 1942 also mentioned that the figures should be painted using stencils with a blue drab blue enamel with an inch high figure on the motorcycle, two inches on the trailer and the US registration plate and four inches high and two inches wide on all other vehicles..
The April 22, 1942 regulation of colors was changed and from 1943 the numbers were prescribed for white painting, because dull blue is too difficult to see.
The 1945 Constitution stipulates white slim, stencilling, enamel paint with numbers on both sides of the hood close to the vertical surface so that numbers can be read from the side and at the rear of the vehicle, where space allows with the height of letters varying from 1 inch to 4 inches, biggest practical to use.
Air recognition symbol
The official air recognition will be a plain white five star pointing at a horizontal or glacial surface used for national identification.
During 1942-3 when a thick white band appeared around the AFV turret in North Africa, the Pacific and in the UK.
Five white pointed stars with circles around, often broken in dots, per stencil, commonly used by July 1943 on horizontal surfaces, except in the Pacific theater.
The landing vehicle in Sicily was ordered to change the air acknowledgment by painting a yellow circle around a white star, sometimes the circle thickened and the size of the star diminished.
The bridge plate
All vehicles have bridge ratings, US regulations in 1942 and 1943 did not specify the system. In practice the British system was adopted. Ratings are displayed on yellow circles, with black posts. The circle is for most vehicles on the attached plate, 6 inches to 9 inches in diameter. Tanks and many other AFVs have signs painted on their stomachs. The location is on the front, often attached to the right fender, sometimes attached to the radiator.
The number is likened to the bridge category, very rough by weight with adjustments for axel loading and impact factors, rounded off. Where the vehicle usually has a trailer, it shows two numbers, the top is a vehicle loaded with trailer loaded, lower only the loaded vehicle.
A Jeep, if it has a trailer, will have 3/2. Jeeps and motorcycles do not have bridge plates, they fall into category 1 or 2.
In the field, bright yellow-faced yellow marks are considered too visible so often attenuated, repainted as a yellow empty circle or discarded.
In February 1945, US regulations set the US system to be a black number on an eight-inch yellow box, or an 8x6 square platen that was fastened to the right front center bumper. AFV is in front with the top of the track, half track and scout car in the right fender. Right Amphibi right. The figures use the same system for towing vehicles on tractors plus cranes above the tractor rank. It does not seem that in Europe it was adopted before the war ended there.
Other tagging
Regiment symbol
Regimental peaks prevailed between war and continued until 1941, still appearing in 1943 and 1944 among artillery, cavalry and independent companies. These unofficial colored signs are placed on the side of the vehicle.
Ratings
The Vehicle General Officer carries a 6 inch tall plate with a width of 9 inches on the front right and left of the rear bumper, painted red and pads up to five five-pointed white stars. Covered or removed when the vehicle does not carry the generals. The flag is an alternative, flown in the right front wing of the car.
Left hand drive
US Army vehicles sent to the UK have:
- BE CAREFUL OF THE LEFT RIGHT over DRIVE or
- LEFT HANDS over DRIVE over WITHOUT SIGNATURE
The letters were two or three inches high at the back. These signs are usually maintained when the vehicle is shipped to Europe.
Speed ​​limit
A MAX SPEED mark and a number in one-inch letter has been stenciled on the front dashboard, using the same paint as the vehicle serial number.
Shipping and railway loading
Shipping stencil is applied before shipping from USA. Up to five lines provide length and width in inches, shipping and combat weight in pounds and other related information. In one or two inches of white letters on the dull paint of olives or sometimes on the black panel mats.
Tire pressure
Stencil prints with T.P. and the number (35 for Jeep) is inserted on the inside of the dashboard or inside the wheel properly.
Anti-freeze
When the anti-freeze is put on the PRESTONE radiator with a year of stencils on the hood on the radiator grill, 43 shows winter 43/44. ½ to 1 inch white letters.
No smoking
Signs with NO SMOKING are given on vehicles carrying flammable liquids
Convoy sign
A visibility patch consisting of three vertical white lines and four alternate black lines is often painted on the rear fenders to help maintain the station.
Personal alerts
The slogans, words, names and personal pictures of pin up girls and Disney characters are not recommended but are proven in many vehicles in wartime. The February 1945 Regulation states that "caricatures, cartoons, symbols of arms and symbolic figures are not allowed."
Special vehicles
Ambulance
Rule 1942 mentions the Geneva cross, bright red in a snowy white field. It crossed into eighteen inches and every limb became square six inches, in the center of the side of the body. On the roof of the red cross on a white background to reach both sides. Above the visor, the white letter AMBULANCE with a small red cross with a white background on both sides, can be on the windshield but does not interfere with the driver's eyesight. At each back door, under a window, a six-inch cross in a white field eight inches. All posts in white should be shaded correctly to give depth.
A six-inch caduceus in maroon will be painted on both sides of the rear body, under the bottom mold, seven inches to the back of the front body. Where in an inch of letter UNITED STATES over ARMY. All the paint becomes immaculate enamel.
Dangerous cargo
Vehicles carrying explosives display the word EXPLOSION in white letters three inches on the red plaque in front, back, and on either side. Bumper painted red.
Fuel tanker refueling tanks in 1945 painted yellow chrome, and have black letters. The olive-drenched army tankers have white letters. The marks shown are OCTAINE GASOLINE and NO SMOKING WITHIN 50 FEET.
Military Police
All Jeeps used by Military Police have a MILITARY POLICE in black letters three inches round the circumference of a sixteen-inch white disk in the center of the spare wheel at the rear. Similar marks are also painted under the windshield. On a motorbike MILITARY POLICE appears with white or black on the white windshield canvas, or black on a white band.
Animals withdrawn
1942 regulations state that vehicles drawn by animals, including canvas cover vehicles for U.S. marking. using stencils in the lackluster blue paint, generally on both sides and tailgate. Animal ambulance carries a green cross.
See also
- the mark of the British military vehicle of World War II
References
External links
- 1942 Army Rules
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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