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Originally Posted by atckyrre
It does seem strange they've changed the colour sequence for the II and III Gruppe, while normally they'd be red for II and yellow for III gruppe.
One thing I am not entirely convinced about is the individual letter, since both black and red was used as 2. and 5. staffel colours. Red was the most common, but I have seen a b/w pictures with what appears to be black lettering on a 5. staffel machine, albeit from 1942.
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You are right, when you have a look at KG 27, 30, 77, II. group had
a red shield, III. group a yellow one.
If they used coloured outlines sometimes, I don't know.
Maybe anybody else can help us here?
I own a photo of a He 111 1H+DN too, it could be the same plane.
The "D" is outlined in white, I think, and the letter in painted in
black or in red. The shield is really light, definitely not red.
Often some units (complete groups, "Staffeln" or "Ketten") painted
their individual letters also in black, so it's not unusual that you can
see photos with complete black codes.