Aircraft recognition

But the Americans you see, they had, they had very little if any, any aircraft recognition. They, they, they didn't know one aircraft from another. When we were stationed at ASU, for, as an example, we used a, a Mustang fighter for fighter fill for and, and this American came in, don't know just the purpose, but he'd landed and he got out and he was talking away and he said "well, oh, Jeez, that's a nice aircraft over there" and we looked at him, and it was the same aircraft except with graph markings. He went over and he looked and "Oh, Jeez, this is great" and we looked at him and said "Well, what's with you, you know, this, it's the same aircraft you're flying except gr-", "Oh", flabbergasted. And one of my buddies was a Spit pilot, and they were tooling around and they saw a group of American aircraft and they thought everything's
pecky-poo, all of sudden all hell breaks loose and they're being fired at, and they had to take action to get away from them, and let it be known that they were, they were "Hey, we're on your side".