18.02.2009, 22:55
RRuger Wrote:Very nice BB, but I have to ask, is the lettering on the side suppose to be under or over the ensignia, or not at all?
It depended on the individual plane. Most of the group's early planes had the codes painted on when the US insignia didn't have the bars (late spring 1943). When the bars were made official (July 1943), they usually (but not always) just painted them over the letters.