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Hi, I am doing now two Douglas biplanes: O2MC from China (1937) and O38E from Haiti 1942-43. Both models are from Ardpol - small Polish company producing very nice resin models in my home city - Krakow. The dacals in both cases comes "from drawer" - since in boxes there US markings only. On a web page http://www.39-45.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=37035 there are some illustration on O38E. The Haitanian O38E was photographed after crash: There is also a colour profile: The colour scheme above (or profile) is not 100% consisten with photo - on photo the number on tail is rather just "001" not "4001" although the machine has s/n 34-001 indeed. Moreover the propeller on photo is dark (at least from back) and looks like having typical for US three colours stripes at the blade end. On profile it is all in alu. There is soemthing else. Here on profile there is a character "H" on bottom of left wing. I've seen (on a scratch build model in net) interpretation of this H as begining of word "Haiti" but if H is on left wing this description is redible from back. This is rather unusual - the description on wings usually are written to be read from front, so H should be on right wing. Or the inscription is not "Haiti" but something else? A part of tactical code, for instance hope that some experts on Ibero-American avaition can help...Likely some other Haitanian airplanes had similar inscriptions?. Best regards Jerzy-Wojtek
