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Re: All-black Bf 109
To discuss the possibility that there were all-black Bf 109s is a thing, to believe to the report of a pilot which stated to have shot down an all-black Bf 109 is quite another...
The reliability of such reports is absolutely low, mainly due to many objective factors that in a combat does not allow to see accurately and with precision colours and markings of aircraft you are shooting at or fighting against.
I have personally read dozens of such reports knowing perfectly which aircraft were involved and the camouflage & markings of them all, yet I've never read a correct, leave alone accurate description of such aircraft from the pilots involved, only sensations, glimpses or passing impressions.
The difference is that some of them admitted such limits, while others put on paper as certainties their "impressions", and that gave way to the many gaudy painted Luftwaffe aircraft that apparently infested the skies over Europe, starting with the ominous "all-yellow Fw190" reported in Clostermann's book ...
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All the best,
Ferdinando D'Amico
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