Archer 1/35 US Late WWII Shipping Address Codes AR35013

Description: Archer Fine Transfers 1/35 US WWII Late War Shipping Address Codes (White) AR35013 Brand new! This is a dry transfer decal from Archer Fine Transfers. About Archer Fine Transfers: Archer Fine Transfers is well known in the modeling community for producing highly accurate transfers of excellent quality. Although they have some traditional water-slide decals available, their primary product line is dry transfers. Dry transfers are are markings that you don't have to use water to apply, but instead you gently rub them on with a blunt tool or object, when they are dry. The benefit of using dry transfers over water slide decals is that dry transfers are usually more realistic in appearance because they appear painted on like real vehicle markings. This better appearance is due to the transfers not having excess carrier film and also being generally thinner than water slide decals so they snuggle down and hug the object better.Decal Specifications: In order to facilitate pinpoint deliveries of high priority war goods, in 1944 the US instituted a coding system that was used to send goods that supported US forces deployed overseas. These were made complex due to the number of customers needing support, as well as the detail required for pinpoint shipments. Note: we have provided a number of complete valid codes which have been taken from actual vehicles. By mixing and matching the components, you can produce a good set of codes for nearly any late war replacement vehicle. There were five parts to each of these coded addresses (example given): BOBO - a four letter code name indicating the port of discharge or general destination A- a single or later double letter indicator of which half of a month the shipment was sent (A - 1st half of January, B- 2nd half, C - 1st half of February, etc, through Z - 2nd half of December; no I or II or O or OO to avoid confusion with numbers) ORD- the shipping service (ORD - Ordnance, QM, Quartermaster, etc.) II- Roman numeral indicating the class of supply (per standard US Army codes: Class I - Rations and Subsistence; II - General Supplies; III - Fuel; IV - Engineer materiel; V - Ammunition; VI - Personal Demand Items (PX, spirits, etc.); VII - Major End Items; VIII - Medical Supplies; IX - Miscellaneous GT3 - group indicating the components or supplied needed to complete a specific order or mission (optional) A302RA3 -combination of letters and digits which identify the shipment against a requisition, show the depot from where it was sent, and indicated the number of the shipment when several shipments were made on separate documents against a single requisition. This would read: FOR SHIPMENT ONLY BOBO-A-ORDII-GT3-A302RA3 When transferred as a stencil on a crate or complete object (such as a tank or vehicle). Additionally, crates would have color swatches used to identify them This also permitted longshoremen to sort them out when they could not read English, or could not immediately identify the item (such as a crate, rather than a vehicle). Items so shipped also needed dimensional data covering weight, size, and volume on one or two sides of a crate and on both sides of a vehicle. Most of the items which bore these codes included replacement or upgraded armored vehicles, such as 76mm armed Sherman tanks or the first 40 Pershing tanks shipped from the US in 1945. These were stenciled in 1" or 2" high stenciling. Colors appear to be both white and yellow.

Price: 9.95 USD

Location: Sterling, Virginia

End Time: 2024-11-24T09:27:04.000Z

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