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Originally Posted by Graham Boak
We are all-too-familiar with the simple - and proven wrong - assumption that many Luftwaffe aircraft, particularly on the eastern Front, were in a single green. So doubt that this was the case for the Hs123 is entirely understandable, particularly in the lack of good clear photos of the type. Why should it be true?
Is it true that all types out of production before the introduction of the 70/71 scheme never received this scheme? This does sound like a possible mechanism by which the apparently unique colour scheme of a single green could have been created. I suspect that some aircraft, such as the Fw56 perhaps, will disprove this, but I'm unsure of its production run.
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Graham you do need to keep an open mind about deviations from an "assumed spec". Other than the canard about fuzzy pix, there has been nothing to show that the 70/71 was on a Hs 123. It is often the fuzzy pictures that are used to show 70/71. The single green on the Hs 123 has not been proven wrong. Can you offer the proof? The point is that there is no proof that 70/71 was ever applied at the factory.
The only evidence of 70/71 is in questionable profiles.