On 2013-04-30 19:17:19 -0700, "Jeff - VK4XA"
said:

Are you sure that these Spits were for the US Joe?
The insignia looks more like the SAAF star to me.

That is the USAAF insignia as used on Spitfires. A white star on a blue
circular field.
The same shaped red star without a circular field was the Soviet version

The SAAF did not use a star. Up until 1949 the SAAF used a blue, white
and orange roundel with a gold border. In 1949 they changed to a large
white roundel with a broad blue border with a leaping gold springbok on
the white.



In 1961 they changed again to a graphic silhouette of Cape Town Castle
in blue with a springbok in gold. So it is a castle not a star.


The post apartheid SAAF insignia is a stylized nine point star with an eagle.



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Regards,

Savageduck