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Old 29th November 2005, 00:37
Franek Grabowski Franek Grabowski is offline
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Re: Colours used on JG54 109F aircraft at start of Barbarossa

Kjetil
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Originally Posted by Kjetil Aakra
Franek, I think your characterisation of this disucssion is a bit rash and exaggerated. Luftwaffe colours have always attracted a lot of people and will continue to do so and while our conclusions can rarely be considered absolutes I do think that there is enough data to consider it a science of sorts.
I cannot consider it a science when in most cases no science methods are applied.
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"remember that army is generally dull, goes according to orders and dislikes individualism"
is certainly true, but does not at all apply to Luftwaffe as far as colours, camouflage schemes and application of these are concerned!
It does apply to Luftwaffe camouflage! Most colourful paint schemes are actually an effect of misinterpretation of photos, lack of knowledge and wishful thinking. As yet nobody considered different shades of Olive Drab a different camouflage scheme, so I see no reason we should treat German colours in a different way.
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