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U.S. Army Signal Corps Curtiss JN-3 biplanes with red star insignia, 1915 Nieuport 28 with the World War 1 era American roundels. The first military aviation insignias of the United States include a star used by the US Army Signal Corps Aviation Section, seen during the Pancho Villa punitive expedition, just over a year before American involvement in World War I began.
Description: Roundel of the United States Air Force and aircraft operated by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps: Date: 8 September 2010: Source: MIL-STD-2161A (AS), DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STANDARD PRACTICE PAINT SCHEMES AND EXTERIOR MARKINGS FOR US NAVY AND MARINE CORPS AIRCRAFT (1 MAY 1993) and USAF TO 1-1-4, TECHNICAL MANUAL EXTERIOR FINISHES, INSIGNIA AND MARKINGS ...
Of all the early operators of military aircraft, Germany was unusual in not using circular roundels. After evaluating several possible markings, including a black, red, and white checkerboard, a similarly coloured roundel, and black stripes, it chose a black 'iron cross' on a square white field, as it was already in use on various flags, and reflected Germany's heritage as the Holy Roman Empire.
The Tricolore cockade of the French Air Force was first used on military aircraft before the First World War [1]. A roundel is a circular disc used as a symbol. The term is used in heraldry, but also commonly used to refer to a type of national insignia used on military aircraft, generally circular in shape and usually comprising concentric rings of different colours.
A blue/white roundel, sometimes with US-style white bars, was also used on Fleet Air Arm aircraft [8] [9] Blue/white roundels were also used by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), which simply over-painted the red dot in white, regardless of previous proportions. Ratio 2:5 (SEAC)
Libyan Arab Republic Air Force 1969–1977 Royal Libyan Air Force Al Quwwat al Jawwiya al Malakiya al Libiyya. 1951–1969 Lithuania: Lithuanian Air Force Karinės Oro Pajėgos : 1922–1940, 1992 Lithuanian Military Aviation. 1920–1921 former insignia 1919–1920 Lithuanian National Defence Volunteer Forces, Aviation Unit 1992
English: Roundel used by all US armed forces from 31 July 1943 to 14 January 1947, replacing roundel having red outline, or no outline, but with white bars, and was replaced some nine months before the USAF was formed, by roundel having a single lengthwise red bar inset in white bars (bisecting them), giving the insignia the trio of red-white-red stripes evocative of the non-canton areas of ...
Roundel of the United States Army Air Corps used from 1926 to 1941. When the Air Corps name was changed to the United States Army Air Force which retained the roundel until 1942 when complaints came that the red dot in the centre of the star could be confused by anti-aircraft personnel or other pilots for Japanese aircraft (their roundel was a red circle).