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U.S. Army-Navy Journal of Recognition: Number 6, February 1944

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U.S. Army-Navy Journal of Recognition
February 1944, Number 6

This monthly publication was a joint effort by the Navy and the Army to bring out the latest and most important recognition news.

Originally published in February 1944 by the Bureau of Aeronautics of the U.S. Navy in magazine format.

Quiz No. 1: These Are Sillographs
Training Aids
- Perspective distorts plane shape
Recognition Training List: Aircraft
- U.S. Navy
- U.S. Army
- British–R.A.F.
- British Fleet Air Arm
- Russian
- German
- Japanese
USAAF's Fast New Pursuit [P-61]
Royal Air Force: Greatest air force of the First World War, it has reaffirmed its position in the Second
- Hurricane & Spitfire have retained superiority since the Battle of Britain
- Typhoon Bomber and Beaufighter constantly harass Axis outskirts of Europe
- Lethal Mosquito: Fast nightfighter, intruder bomber, reconnaissance lane is world's most versatile aircraft
- Wellington, Sunderland have fought since beginning
- Halifax and Stirling: Britain gets revenge as heavies pour weight on Germany
- Lancaster: RAF's fastest big bomber, it is mainstay of Bomber Command
Channel Craft: With heavier classes crippled, German Fleet's sting depends on smaller types
- German Naval Vessels: Principal Combatant Types by Classes
Ferdinand & the Panther: More pictures of self-propelled "88" and PzKw Mark V reveals details of new Nazi weapons
Army's First Airborne Tank [M22 Locust]
Divebomber [SBD Dauntless]
Quiz No. 2: Armored Combatants
Quiz No. 3: It Takes all Kinds [naval vessels]
Landing Craft: New Types Lead Assaults on Beaches Held by Enemy
- Norway and the Channel
- The Mediterranean
  - LST
  - LCI
  - LCT
  - LCM
  - LCP
  - LCS
  - LVT
Quiz No. 4: Warplanes in E.T.O.
Exhaust Patterns [of aircraft]
News & Miscellany
- New Silhouette [Tojo]
- News
- Training Aids
- Correction
- Recognition Coverage in Naval Training Commands
- Quiz Answers
- Credits
"Helen," T-100 M/B
"Nick," Type 2
52 pages
121 photos
23 drawings
3 illustrations
38 side-view ship drawings
14 three-view silhouette aircraft drawings
3 three-view silhouette tank drawings