 The Fw 190D aircraft of this so-called "Platzschutzstaffel" (airfield protection squadron) used a color scheme featuring solid red-painted areas under the wings and around the rear fuselage areas, within which narrow white stripes running fore-to-aft inder the wings and "vertically" around the fuselage areas were painted, to identify them as "friendly" Luftwaffe fighters.This was done for similar reasons as the "invasion stripes" had been used in Operation Overlord ten months earlier over Normandy.The "Staffel "was nicknamed "Die Papagei-Staffel" ("The Butcher bird squad") - it is not known, however, if the earlier use of "Würger" (which translates as "strangler" in English) by the Focke-Wulf aircraft firm itself for its original Fw 190A radial-engined initial subtype had any bearing on the JV 44 unit's "Platzschutzstaffel" nickname.