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Subject: Re: Ansaldo SVA pics 1 [02/10] - Ansaldo SVA 006w.jpg (1/1)
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 16:00:52 +0200
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Miloch wrote:
>>"Miloch" wrote in message news:ofcf17012pp@drn.newsguy.com...
>>What accounts for the swastikas?
>Before the Nazis used it, it was a universal symbol for good luck. More than
>one pilot painted it on his plane.
In this case it wasn't a pilot's choice, it was the national Air Force roundel
of Latvia, the Baltic short-lived republic. The Swastika is red on white
background.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roundel_of_the_Latvian_Air_Force_1919_border.svg
The new Latvia, reborn after USSR collapse, chose a tamer cockade like Peru's:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roundel_of_Latvia.svg
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