Anyway, I was watching an old music video the other day (for Pearl Jam’s “Do the Evolution”), which briefly features a pair of jets making a napalm drop. They’re obviously based on A-4s, with some technical differences. (Such as a different wing design, and ahem helicopter rotors.)
Now, what I was wondering is: are the paint jobs on the aircraft based on any real squadron markings?
Now, there’s a red circle on the side of the fuselage (suggestive of the Japanese “meatball”), and a blueish shape on the tail, with a yellow “J” beneath.
It’s a long shot that it’s based on anything real, I know. But I just thought I’d check.
There is an emblem or decal or shoulder patch of some sort that is a red circle, (perhaps a drum top?) with a pair of crossed tomahawks or war clubs (or peace pipes?) that I have seen. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find it in a search. I am not even sure that the emblem I’ve seen was a Navy or Marine emblem and my hazy memory actually associates it with either the Army or a police force.
To me, the red circles on the engine fairings of your painting appear to have the same sort of crossed devices in a dark color near the top of the circle.
Well, I have figured out what it was that jogged my memory, although I have still not discoverd a link to an image.
This Indian shield from the logo for Oglala Lakota College is close. The shield (not drum) that I remember had the tomahawk/pipes higher on the shield with no other markings, crossing a t broader angle so that the handles were closer to the rim of the shield.
tomndebb, this site is just an amazing assortment of insignia from pretty much all of the branches in most of the wars we’ve fought. Could you have seen a shoulder patch from the 84th ID?
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But that squadron marking in the OP? I’d chalk it up to imaginative Japanimation–not a real squadron.
