Originally Posted by
flash
There is that but it also denotes which flight he belongs to and who the flight leader is.
Most squadrons had individual aircraft markings, which can be a mixture of letters for some flights and numbers for others or all letters.
eg No. 79 Sqn. 'A' Flt: A, B, C, D, E, F; 'B' Flt: G, H, J, K, L, M; 'C' Flt: N, O, P, Q, R, S. Extra aircraft on strength had letters including U, V and X.
Of course later bigger squadrons would have used more letters & numbers for each flight and shifted them along.
There were variances, as there are in all things, in font, size, colour location an so on. I'm sure there are eye-watering expensive books on the subject !
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