And finally, a close-up of the nose art . . .

My contribution – the Elvington Halifax in Februay this year.

I shall be visiting Oshkosh this year and would be more than delighted if I could see “Fifi” there, is there any chance of that, does anyone know?
One of my most abiding memories is seeing the American B-50s trundling around the taxiway at RAF Waddington in the very early 1950s as a child there, what a contrast with their sleek lines and deep-throated rumble to the angular and deafening Lincolns.
Incidentally around that time a Lincoln just missed our house on the AMQ patch and crashed on the rubbish dump between the RAF station and the village, does anyone have any details? I’ll never forget the crew running away from the aircraft across the wheat field towards our house, but fortunately it didn’t catch fire and the remains were eventually removed. It must have been around 1952.
I was one of the “got any gum, chum” generation (sweet rationing was till on) and another clear memory is of the fantastic Christmas party with the Yanks there, we all got wonderful presents; at that time of austerity in the UK the Americans showed such incredible friendliness and generosity that we kids thought they were from another world, which in a sense they were.

Sorry, Flood, but there would have been plenty of Gladiators to go round by 1938, according to “The British Fighter since 1912” page 245:
“The first production aircraft were delivered during January and February 1937. . . . Before the end of 1937 Gladiators had . . . joined Nos. 3, 54, 56, 65, 80 and 87 Squadrons.”

Sorry, Anton, they all have big red stars on them!
By the way, what is the Albanian Air Force symbol? Do you have a picture of one to put up on the Forum?

Let’s try a common difference between American and UK English:
colour (Aha! the program picks it up and suggests “color” so it’s using a US English database)
Nevertheless it seems to be useful gadget and I’ll keep it on my toolbar (or “tool bar” as it recommends).
Perhaps it can help me spell-check my Swedish too! I’ll poke around a bit more to see if there are “foreign” versions or add-ons.
(Sorry, thinking aloud there!)
Thank you to those of you who brought this to my attention.

The search continues . . .
Found quite a lot of detail on this Russian site:
http://www.aerotechnics.ru/avia/aircraft/uk/barracuda.asp
but although tantalisingly close, not quite what you need!
However the other drawings on this site might give other useful information.

. . . and part of a photo from the same page; is this the “window” you mean?
(I hope the severely mangled scan shows up here!)