They assumed I was Japanese. Luckily, personnel from the listening station came and got him before anything could happen. I was quite concerned because they were getting increasingly belligerent. At the time of that particular incident, the squadron's planes were still unmarked as there had not yet been time to apply the Chinese National Insignia nor even plane numbers. The plane number was in whitewash water color and if you flew through rain even that would come off.
Many people wonder where the idea for the shark mouth marking came from.
Shilling was actually the first one to apply the mouth after he got the idea from seeing a picture of a German aircraft with that marking. His aircraft was unique in having the only painting with a blue outline - the others were outlined in black. I just used what paint was available at the time. The blue came from the Chinese crew that was painting the Chinese rondel. The red came from the guy that was painting the Hell's Angel girl and I used the paint from that.