How to distinguish the insigna of the air fleets of the diferent countries involved in World War I

Title (Dublin Core): How to distinguish the insigna of the air fleets of the diferent countries involved in World War I
Subject (Dublin Core): en Technology; en Other; en Airplanes and Zeppelins
Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core): How to Tell Whether They're Right
extracted text (Extract Text): WHEN. He Uited Sinton fret
joined the Allies, some of our
airmen sported a star within a circle
as the insignia of our air service.
It was not long before the need for
distinguishing marks of greater uni-
formity was felt, and we adopted
the insignia of concentric circles
used by our Allies, the only dif-
ference being in the colors. This
caused some confusion to artists,
and they often got French or Eng-
lish color arrangement on American
airplanes.

In an attempt to help readers to
distinguish between the planes when
they see them in illustrations, the
symbols below have been giventheir print or magazine value rather than their
actual color value.
Language (Dublin Core): eng
Temporal Coverage (Dublin Core): Interwar period
Date Issued (Dublin Core): 1919-02
Is Part Of (Dublin Core): Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 2, 1919
pages (Bibliographic Ontology): 68
Rights (Dublin Core): Public domain (Google digitized)
Source (Dublin Core): Google Books
References (Dublin Core): Allies of the First World War
Archived by (Dublin Core): Davide Donà; Marco Bortolami (editor)