[The_Stainless_Steel_Rat]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Hanno.

My thoughts were along the lines of a landing sign as well. It is a very 'bright' marking and as such must have been of a temporary nature, so I bought it may have been used to sort equipment for loading onto landing craft.

The film looks to be related to landings in either Italy or Sicily, so perhaps this marking was unique to that operation for some reason. I don't recall ever seeing any similar windscreen marks on equipment landing at Normandy, so maybe after trying it in Italy the powers that be decided it was not necessary for D-Day.

Very curious none the less.

Could it have been a identifier for signalling the location of the driver, so that while unloading you knew where to look/direct the unloading, once its on the beach you'd want that off pretty quick unless you liked putting in fresh drivers all the time.

We have used similar markings like this to indicate where to look when unloading show vehicles that can have right or left hand drive and are hard to see the driver.