Re: Saving Private Ryan

Something is bugging me. In this viewing you guys comment on how in war they would color code the planes differently from enemy planes, and you made it sound like they were just being polite. However another big reason is that keeping your planes visually separable from enemy planes makes it so much easier to not shot down your one of your own. Think about it, if everyone was flying a green plane, how would you know which is the enemy? If you say by checking out which type of plane they are flying do remember although calmly you can tell the difference between say a Hellcat and a Zero, in the thick of battle with adrenaline pumping you aren't going to be thinking so clearly and at the range of the dogfight would be difficult to tell apart. Finally you got AA guns on the ground which are WAY to far away to be able to tell the difference between and allied speck and an enemy speck that they are shooting at. There are confirmed cases of Allied planes being shot down by friendly fire because it is already difficult to tell a friend from foe. If everyone flew the same colored plane, I don't think we would have ANY pilots left around.

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