The Jap Green Cross Flights of WWII

gafinfan · May 26, 2015

http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageN...leView/articleId/451/Green-Cross-to-Bear.aspx

The flight of these two Bettys became known as the Green Cross flights and the technique became the standard operating procedure for Japanese aircraft carrying envoys for surrender across the remnants of the Japanese empire for the next month. The only Japanese aircraft flying unmolested had to be approved and had to cover their old markings with the approved Green Cross standards. Not every aircraft complied with every detail of the specified paint scheme; not every aircraft was painted white nor every cross painted green, but scores of these surrender aircraft brought about the end of the killing and suffering and the beginning of the healing.

Here, collected from the internet, are photographs of some of those Green Cross flights and Green Cross aircraft, starting with the most photographed of them all—the Green Cross Bettys of Iejima
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Ohiophinphan · May 26, 2015

I had seen a number of these photos but not the whole sequence. It is a remarkable collection. Thank you for posting it.

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