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Re: invasion stripes (D-Day identification) on a B-17 of 401st B-17

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By: Clyde L. Mings
On: 03/04/2006
You will probably be swamped with 401sters who flew on D-Day in B-17's and they will confirm that we did NOT have black and white stripes on our B-17 bombers. I flew on Madame Queen IN-Q in the 613th and our target was coastal defenses at Omaha Beach at Ver-sur-mer.The fighters and some B-26's had them to preclude our own troops from firing on friendly aircraft as they did during the war in Italy.