On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:01:56 GMT, "David E. Powell"
wrote:

Maybe it was for a certain operation, like the black and white wing stripes
on Allied planes for Overlord?

I doubt the Japanese would have had the resources for that.

My first thought was that the stripe indicated that the plane was
carrying an Ohka, perhaps because it was in a formation of other
bombers, or perhaps to indicate that it required additional protection
from escorts? (You couldn't tell from above that there was an Ohka
strapped below.) But this seems far-fetched. By this time the JNAF and
the JAAF just weren't bothering with such niceties. Everyone was going
to die, anyhow, so why bother if it was sooner or later?

I suspect that the stripes pre-dated the Ohka assignment.


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