Tojo72
Did other countries besides the Germans drape flags over their vehicles in the same manner.Like Soviet,American,and British ?
Ivan was a big flag user... Seems that they would make as many flags as they did uniforms... But since they were always short on radios, this necessitated the use of an over-size Hammer & Sickel, since the Germans used a red flag as well, so as to keep friendly-fire incidents to a minimum (by Ivan's terms)...
I haven't seen much in the way of the Union Jack being used as air recognition flags by British and Commonwealth units or vehicles, just the markers...
Americans tended to, as Stik said, mostly use flourescent panel markers... These are better than flags since they can ID individual vehilces, or be used on the ground to point at specific postions, tell CAS to make a strafing or bomb-run in a particular direction, or to mark a "bomb-line" on the ground. In the John Wayne movie, Flying Leathernecks, there is a scene in which these panel markers are put to good use, and are quite visiible...
But, if they had them, GIs would use flags as well, such as the Rangers did here at Pointe du Hoc on 6 JUNE 44, to mark their BAS...
Overall though, you'd see more panels than anything else on US "stuff"... We still use 'em today, they're Day-Glo reddish-Orange on one side, Day-Glo Yellow on the reverse... The reason for the two colors is to ID a position to a pilot as the one you're actually occupying, since "Mr Imnota Merican" can listen in and get what color to use... So the pilot actually IDs the panel color first, then gets lined up, rather than the other way around..
Also I have a Verlinden set of flags,would aplying the flag decal on aluminum foil or bare metal foil work ?
Sure... Or you could roll out a bit of two-part epoxy putty to make the flag, appropriately folding, tearing, adding bullet-holes to, and wrinkling it, then apply the decal... Ot you could use tissue-paper to make it as well...