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Hey everyone! We’re back with some more historical decals for March, we hope you liked the selection for February and are keen to collect some more! Quite a few rarer markings this time around, Erika proved to be especially obscure. We found one fuzzy photo of it in an old emblem book in our office, and as always our artist Colin did a great job of recreating it for the game. A note for the wizard, as the original placement was internal the decal won’t be able to be placed on the original location in the game (we’ve applied it directly to a skin for the screenshot), but we’re sure you can come up with some great spots for it all the same.
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The following decals are available from March 12th (11:00 GMT) until April 13th (09:00 GMT).
All tasks can be completed using vehicles that are rank III or higher.
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| Erika Inscription, Germany | “GBU Wizard” Art, USA |
| Finish in position 1-3 three times using German Aircraft | Defeat 20 Players in Ground Vehicles while using Guided Bombs and ATGMs using USA Aircraft |
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Erika Inscription
A personal inscription of Hans "Waldi" Waldmann, 6./JG 52 (6th Squadron of the 52nd Fighter Wing), Luftwaffe. Hans joined JG 52 as a sergeant on the 21st of August 1942 flying the Bf 109 G-2. He achieved his first victory only weeks later on the 7th of September, and less than a year later had already tallied 50 aerial victories. In total, he would achieve 125 victories while part of JG 52, before transitioning to JG 7 and the Me 262 in the final year of the war. Hans painted several markings on his aircraft over his career, one of the rarest and least documented was the inscription "Erika”; the name of his girlfriend. It was painted at an angle under the cockpit on the port side of his Bf 109 G-6 during the tail end of his time with JG 52.
"GBU Wizard" Art
“GBU Wizard” artwork, 416th Tactical Fighter Squadron, USAF. Following the prominent Air Force tradition of personal nose art, F-117 pilots in the Gulf War had to not only be tactical with their aircraft, but with their markings as well. As the aircraft were painted with special RAM paint, personal markings were forbidden on the exterior of the aircraft as to not compromise the special radar-absorbing properties of the coating. Unperturbed by this restriction, pilots painted their personal markings on the inside of the aircraft on the internal bomb bay doors instead. Most of the artwork focused around the mystical nature of the F-117, with many examples of artwork pertaining to magic and sorcery. This quintessential example was painted at the edge of the internal bomb bay door on F-117 81-10797, with the accompanying text "Spell Bound" off to the right.
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| MPK OVR Emblem, USSR | “Winking Clown” Emblem, Britain | Danish Dynamite Emblem, Denmark |
| Score 20000 Damage while using USSR Coastal Vessels | Earn 15000 score while using British Ground Vehicles | Defeat 50 players using Swedish Ground Vehicles |
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MPK OVR Emblem
The emblem of Anti-Submarine Ships of the Water Area Defense Brigade, Soviet Navy. In the early 1970s, a special commission was created to design naval emblems for specific ship types and roles in the navy. Artist Valentin Pechatin led the design team, creating the majority of the emblems by 1972. Each element of the base shield was meticulously designed; the five points on the shield represent the four major fleets and the Caspian flotilla. The blue triangle and white
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