What symbols represented each side?

Answer 1

Answer

Each country used National Markings for their airplanes and tanks and trucks so that they could be identified on the battlefield.

Vehicles such as trucks and tanks.USA - White Star or a white star with a white circle around the points of the star.

Germany - plain Black cross with white border only on inside corners.

AircraftUSA - 3 versions: (a) White Star on Blue Circle with a small Red circle in center of star. (b) White star in Blue Circle. (c) Same as C but with a white Bar extending to each side of the blue circle and outlined in blue. {It wasn't until the Air Force was created as a separate branch in 1947 did the bars include a red line.} Early in the war the tail was painted with red/white stripes.

Germany - Same as tank markings except the white outline could be trimmed in a thin black. Later the black cross was omitted and only the white outline was used. A swastika insignia was painted on the rudder.

Japan - Red circle with white trim.

UK - Roundel in 3 colors: Blue, White and Red in the center. However, the sizes of the colors were different depending if the marking was on the Top wing, the bottom wing or the fuselage. The fuselage roundel was trimmed in a thick Yellow band. The roundel on the Top wing had no White and the one on the bottom wing had less Blue. This was done so that the insignia would not distract from the camoflage.

France- Roundel painted in Red, White and Blue in the center.

Italy - Roundel painted in Red, White and Green in the center. This was changed to a white circle with 3 Black fasces. After the fall of Mussolini, they used the Green/White/Red flag but later had their a/c painted in German markings.

Swiss (neutral) - White cross on a field of Red

Sweden - White circle with a Blue Swastika.

Russia - Red Star