Top - James Doolittle standing next to a Spad VII just assigned to the squad. After detailed analysis of various marks and attributes of the aircraft, it can be reasonably concluded that the aircraft is Spad No. S.1741. (Doolittle wasn't assigned this aircraft. His plane was a Nieuport 24bis, N.3616.)

Spad S.1741 was placed in service on July 2nd. It was flown by Willis Haviland on July 2, 3, 10 and 12 (twice), then by Bill Thaw on July 14 and 15, then again by Haviland on July 17th when the aircraft suffered a wreck at Dunkirk when Haviland caught a ditch during a landing.

Bottom - A color photo of a salvaged section of canvas from S.1741 that contained the Sioux insignia. (The design that looks like a swastika is a hakenkreuz, an ancient Buddhist good luck symbol. The hakenkreuz is drawn on a veritcal axis. The Nazis' version, the swastika, was drawn on a 45 degree axis. On the Sioux head, the axis is relative to the head band so the symbol is in fact a hakenkreuz.)

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