Quote Originally Posted by Jock Scot View Post
Out of interest, are those RAF markings on the tail fins of the Mitchell?
Hi Jock,
they are a RAF-type red, white, and blue fin flash recognition marking:



If you go back to May 1917, the rudder on American aircraft was to be marked with three vertical stripes of red, white, and blue (with the blue stripe forward). In February of 1918, the sequence of rudder stripe colors was altered with the blue placed at the rear and red at the rudder post.

As a side note, a yellow border surrounding the national insignia (as seen on the fuselage of this bomber below) was used briefly beginning in late 1942 on some US aircraft based in England and North Africa.



The Yellow Rose