Does the red "rising sun" sticker on the instrument panel indicate a "kill" to the name of the pilot/aircraft or does it signify something else? Britishicon practice was to put such motifs on the engine cowlings of single engine fighters etc and on the forward fuselage area of larger multi engine aircraft, often just forward of the cockpit. With bomber aircraft a Swastika indicated a downed enemy aircraft and a black bomb motif a successful bombing op.. A larger red bomb motif indicated a successful raid on Berlin, the most heavily defended city in continental Europe, and, slightly amusingly, an ice cream cone a successful raid on an Italianicon target. I believe that from the second half of the war, after victory in North Africa, the RAF often flew on to a North African airfield to refuel and rearm after a raid on an Italian target.