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Was wondering when did the practice of painting gas detection patches on vehicles and aircraft stop, were any vehicles coming ashore in Normandy still equipped?

 

Cheers

 

Steve

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Good question , don't know the definitive answer, but as troops landed on the initial landings with gas masks and anti gas impregnated uniforms I am guessing that gas patches were still applied to vehicles.

 

Pete

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Keep in mind that (from what I understand) the gas detection paint normal colour changed from yellow (early war) to green (later war), so you may not be able to see the markings on later green vehicles.

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Thanks for all the replies, I have had a google about and found a thread on g503 showing someone's jeep where he had found some of this paint and it was a off lime yellow, would you do this to your vehicle to help it stand out or am I asking for trouble from people asking why is it like that?

 

Cheers.

 

Steve

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Thanks for all the replies, I have had a google about and found a thread on g503 showing someone's jeep where he had found some of this paint and it was a off lime yellow, would you do this to your vehicle to help it stand out or am I asking for trouble from people asking why is it like that?

 

Cheers.

 

Steve

 

I painted a large yellow splodge on the bonnet of my C15A 12 cab (see photo below) and was pleasantly surprised that most people new what it was for, and those that didn't asked and were always interested to hear how it worked. I would do it but make sure you get the colour and position correct is all I would suggest.

 

Pete

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Was thinking of painting it between the star and the circle on the bonnet as I've found a wartime picture of jeeps like this, at worse it'll be a reasonably easy part to mask back up and respray, I hope.

 

 

Cheers

 

Steve

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