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...planes the Japs bombed on Hickam Field at Pearl Harbor wore an identifying emblem that had marked U.S. warplanes since World War I, and was as familiar to air-minded Americans as the national flag: a white star superimposed on a circular blue background and carrying a red disc in its center...
...early weeks of war proved that the traditional emblem had a bad drawback: from certain angles on the wing of a plane diving or turning in the sun, the red heart of the star could be confused with Japan's plane marking-a large red disc (known to U.S. flyers as "the meatball"). Trigger-nervous gunners occasionally fired on planes that turned out to be American. So the red circle was painted out, leaving a plain white star...
Also prominent among the women was Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Washburn, who always signed her letters "T.N.T." More shocking to "Pagnanelli" than her leaving the shade up while undressing was her insistence that Pearl Harbor had been secretly arranged by the New Deal. "George Pagnanelli" was given the eagle emblem of Mrs. Washburn's Yankee Minuteman. "I'd better run back to the hotel and pack up," she shrieked. "The serpents and vipers are after...
...General Chennault gave Scott a P-40-"the single fighter plane that was to work out of Assam." Scott had its nose painted with the shark's head emblem: "I don't know how long I walked around the fighter admiring it and caressing its wicked-looking body . . . as if I were rolling old sherry around on my tongue. . . . Like a beautiful woman, it demanded constant attention." At last, with his plane's shark mouth "seeming to drip saliva," he went out for action...
...Saint George's Day, and the emblem of the First Army is the cross of Saint George...