Thankfully, their aim was as bad as their recognition.Īs I said in the earlier post though, that was just one element of identifying friendly forces, reflectors, lights and safe templates were others. The American forces that engaged lead elements of 36 Engineers obvously couldn't though. I know I'm biased but yes, you're right, you would expect people could differentiate between the T72 or Abrams.the Brits could The argument that they would only be visible isn't quite accurate though as you would be engaging a tank through tank optics or similar weapons optics.If you were close enough to be engaging with small arms or LAW then hopefully, you would be close enough to see the signs or other recognition elements. You also have to tailer the size of the mark to the size of the space available. A corner usually meant this was a Gruppenadjutant, while for example a Gruppenkommandant (group commander) would have a double corner on his plane. Staff planes were marked with symbols, while ordinary planes were marked with numbers. The problem you have with identification marks is if you make them too big they will act as an aiming mark for enemy forces, therefore you have to judge what is the optimum size. Thew 'v' on the 109 is really a 'corner' marking a plane of the staff. Hence the large number of 'blue on blue' or friendly fire incidents. Unfortunately in the heat of battle it is anything but. You would think it was easy to identify tanks or other armoured and soft skinned vehicles wouldn't you.
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