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Andrew
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dujardin said:what a lucky guyyyyyyy
byeeeeeeee marcel
Sorry Marcel, this is no period shot- it's a bunch of FL re-enactors at a Militaria fair. Check out the guy on the left in the backgorund...
Here's another of the Wasp, this time in a B6 helmet...
These and more shots (including Mikey B17) are to be found here;
http://s495.photobucket.com/albums/rr31 ... S/?start=0
better duck
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Leadsky said:
Ahh, but still a lucky guy!! :lol:
greyhound52
New Member
dujardin said:55th pursuit group 1931
what a lucky guyyyyyyy
byeeeeeeee marcel
The A-1 photo is interesting particularly the patch.
Andrew
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greyhound52 said:
This is it cropped with the contrast turned up. It looks to me to be a figure running- and it may just be the way it's folding that makes it look suspect. Perhaps that nasty symbol was still only considered to be a good luck one at that time? Then again it could be anything....
bfrench
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Leadsky said:
Hi, Andrew,
Your suspicions are correct - it is a swastika - a symbol used around the world many centuries before the Nazi Regime of Germany brought it so much notoriety.
Here's a link to the Wikipedia article and a short excerpt.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
Native American traditions
Native American basketball team in 1909.
The swastika shape was used by some Native Americans. It has been found in excavations of Mississippian-era sites in the Ohio valley. It was widely used by many southwestern tribes, most notably the Navajo. Among various tribes, the swastika carried different meanings. To the Hopi it represented the wandering Hopi clan. To the Navajo it was one symbol for "whirling winds"(tsil no'oli), a sacred image that was used in healing rituals. (After learning of the Nazi usage of the same symbol as "whirling winds", the Navajo stopped using it.)[26] A brightly colored First Nations saddle featuring swastika designs is on display at the Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Canada.[27]
A swastika shape is an ancient symbol in the culture of the Kuna people of Kuna Yala, Panama. In Kuna tradition, it symbolizes the octopus that created the world, with its tentacles pointing to the four cardinal points.[28]
In February, 1925, the Kuna revolted against Panamanian suppression of their culture, and were granted autonomy in 1930; the flag they adopted at that time is based on the swastika shape, and remains the official flag of Kuna Yala. A number of variations on the flag have been used over the years: red top and bottom bands instead of orange were previously used, and in 1942 a ring (representing the traditional Kuna nose-ring) was added to the center of the flag to distinguish it from the Nazi symbol.[29]
Bill French
Chandler
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bfrench said:
Prior to the rise of National Socialism in Germany, the US 45th division patch was the red diamond with a gold swastika to honor the many Native Americans who made up the unit. It was switched out to the well-known Thunderbird sometime in the late '30s or early '40s.
Also of note, the WW1 German Ace, Werner Voss, adorned his Fokker Triplane with a Swastika -- odd in hindsight as Voss was Jewish. And the Finnish Air Force used the Swastika as its national symbol throughout WW2 -- with no connection to the political connotations from Germany.
Chandler
