And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Yes but not in Britain. In Africa and Burma the regulations were relaxed or ignored. According to wikipedia RAF Squadron 112 was the first Allied unit to paint shark mouths on their aircraft some months before the Flying Tigers existed. The first shark mouths were painted on Luftwaffe Me110s. Al_in_Ottawa
Looks like they belong to the Desert Air Force, the RAF force based in Egypt.
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Did RAF paint shark mouths?
DeleteI should reword that. I dint know RAF dolled up their aircraft.
DeleteYes but not in Britain. In Africa and Burma the regulations were relaxed or ignored. According to wikipedia RAF Squadron 112 was the first Allied unit to paint shark mouths on their aircraft some months before the Flying Tigers existed. The first shark mouths were painted on Luftwaffe Me110s.
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American P-40's flown by British pilots. Hundreds of them were flown by RAF pilots during the North African campaign.
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