Using aerial recognition symbols on vehicules

Hi everyone! While painting my german army for my future wargame, I have learned that Germany and maybe other countries were using their nation's flag on the top of some of their vehicules to make them more recognizable to their bombers.

I have just created my first german flag. I would like to know if it looks realistic and on which kinds of vehicules should I add such a flag? Most of them or just a few? Were there any other countries that used flag as aerial recognition symbols from the sky?

 

To be honest I only think here of what I have seen in photos. The flag looks good. In pics I think the first vehicle had a flag on it, not many else but I would not be surprised if there were others,too. Friendly fire is not nice. And the flag shows the planes who you are. Somehow at the moment I don't recall other countries using a flag but wait for the other members.I

 

To be honest I think the flag might be a bit too little but it Works.

 

The swastika recognition panel was used mostly early in the war. It was used far less, if at all later in the war.

Also, later in the war, a switch was made that replaced the swastika with a balkenkruz(of which I have seen only 1 photo of a Panther using it).

Excellent work I will say. But, perhaps too much for late war Sturmtigers.

 

Thanks for the info. I will maybe add a flag here and there on only a few of my german vehicules just for fun. It was a fun little project to do.

Here is another better photo of the flag.

 

I've seen pics of a big swastika flag displayed on a captured & reused T-34

I would suggest that by the time the SturmTiger was in service the Germans would not be wanting to draw any attention from anything that flew...

 

American armor had signal panels that they quickly put out for aerial recognition. I may be wrong but they were orange.

Read in Fredrich Sander's book, Blood, Dust & Snow, that when the Luftwaffe appeared they pulled the red nazi flag to drape over the turret.