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menardi
08-12-2006, 11:08 AM
Hi there!

The following photo is published on the Steve Zaloga´s book, "US Light Tanks At War1941-1945" (page 21, Concord Publications).

http://www.network54.com/Realm/tmp/1155395813.JPG

Could you tell me what is the color of the turret markings? Yelow or white?

Thanks in advance,

Fabrício Menanardi
Larry Bates
08-12-2006, 11:37 AM
Hi Fabricio,

Network 54 doesn't allow linking to their site from this one. Maybe try another photo site.

Larry
menardi
08-12-2006, 02:16 PM
Ok Larry!

My post is in the Missing Lynx too:

http://www.network54.com/Forum/47208/threa...dalcanal+Stuart (http://www.network54.com/Forum/47208/thread/1155395928/Image+for+discussion+only+-+Gualdalcanal+Stuart)


Regards,

Fabrício
Panzergrenadier
08-12-2006, 02:37 PM
I don't see a picture on any of those links.

Siim
Larry Bates
08-12-2006, 04:22 PM
:( me either.....
menardi
08-12-2006, 05:06 PM
Maybe now:

http://www.track-link.net/forum/research_ww2/12106

http://www.track-link.net/forum/research_ww2

Thanks,

Fabrício
Panzergrenadier
08-12-2006, 06:18 PM
Yes they work OK.

Siim
MartinD
08-12-2006, 07:12 PM
I'd go with yellow! Compare the photo to the other Guadalcanal tanks. some oif them sport white markings (stars, turret bands) and these markings are far starker than the one you want to depict!
I don't have any theory behind this as far as offical marking instructions go. I'd have to plunge in my refs for that.

Cheers, M
menardi
08-12-2006, 08:43 PM
Pre-combat the USMC 1st Tank Bn had a very complex system of turret bands, geometric shapes, colors, and numbers. But the original markings system did not long survive in the face of battle. After the battle near the headwaters of the Ilu on 13 September 1942 in which the B Company tanks suffered heavy losses to Japanese AT guns, the markings system got really simple really fast.

Second Ed Gilbert, the color code for A Company was blue and for B Company was red. The M3A1s of C Company did not arrive on Guadalcanal until the fighting was essentially over. There would or might have been, since it was not universal an Army-style white star aft on the turret sides.

The platoons geometric shapes were:
1st- square, numbers 1 - 5
2nd - circle, numbers 1 - 5
3rd - diamond, numbers 1 - 5
HQ - shamrock, numbers 1 - 3

I am not sure about the marking colors of that Stuart.

Cheers,

Fabrício