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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 0112.PDF
112 FLIGHT THE SHARKS' TEETH INSIGNIA ARE SEEN AGAIN WHEN the 2nd Tactical Air Force in Germany decided toadopt distinctive markings for fighter squadrons, similar to those used by home-defence fighter units since the early1920s, one squadron made a special request, for traditional reasons, to be allowed to restore its unorthodox war-timemarking. The Air Ministry rule is that fighter squadron markings shall conform broadly to geometrical patterns—squares, triangles, rectangles, etc,—but No. 112 Squadron, stationed at Bruggen, wished to decorate its Sabres with thesharks'-teeth motif with which its Tomahawks and Kitty- hawks were bedecked in the Western Desert during WorldWar II. Approval was received and the squadron's Sabres are now adorned as seen in pictures on this page. Thesquadron is commanded by S/L. F. M. Hegarty, A.F.C., and
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