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#1
21-08-16, 03:56 PM
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Skull and Cross Bones...any truth....????
http://www.pegasusarchive.org/norman..._GermanPOW.jpg
Private Durston, of the 9th Battalion's "A" Company, with a wounded German POW near the Ecarde crossroads, near the Chateau d'Amfreville. Just above Durston's left wrist there is a skull and crossbones on his smock. This indicates that he was amongst those men of "A" Company who carried out the glider assault on the Merville Battery. Every man in G-B Force had a luminous skull and crossbones painted about them, so that once they had landed in the battery they could be distinguished from the enemy. Any comments.... Jo
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#2
21-08-16, 04:09 PM
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Thanks. What is the expansion of G-B force? Gliderborne?
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13-09-16, 06:48 PM
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Sounds like an odd practice having anything luminous painted on a smock as if to advertise 'shoot me here'; that said the little 'jacket' type waistcoats worn over BD etc at night appear to be luminous so who knows?
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#4
13-09-16, 06:59 PM
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Slightly off topic, but Allied airborne troops were issued with luminous discs for nightime ID purposes during the war, so it might not be altogether improbable:
http://www.paratrooper.be/articles/luminous-disks/ 
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#6
14-09-16, 12:28 AM
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Some individual units had markings painted on the back of their oversmocks, to be discarded upon landing.
Careful with those luminous disks, they are still radioactive! Rgds, Thomas.
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#7
14-09-16, 08:42 AM
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Quote:
Jack
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#8
15-09-16, 12:39 AM
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Apparently there are photographs in the Eagle magazine of Glider Pilots prior to D-Day with skull and crossbones painted on their (over)smocks.
Rgds, Thomas.
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#9
15-09-16, 06:36 PM
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Skull and crossbones..any truth..???
G-B force refers to the officer Gordon-Browne who was 2i/c of 'A' company under Major Parry of the 9th Battalion.
Arnhem
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19-09-16, 05:53 PM
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19-09-16, 06:07 PM
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#13
21-09-16, 02:24 PM
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We used disc's on our helmets, taken from modern American helmet straps. Worn at the rear.
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29-09-16, 12:42 PM
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Pictures of D day issued luminous discs on Mr Mark Bando's excellent website
http://www.101airborneww2.com/equipment3.html
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