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Originally Posted by Kari Lumppio
From earlier discussion of the possible camouflage of I./SG 4 Fw 190s in Baltics it came out (I think it was mr. Beale) that the "Mediterranean" camo was a May 1944 thing and very few (if any) of those survived to be among the ones in Baltic July 1944
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It wasn't me, since I don't know the answer. All I know is that I. and II./SG 4 received a large number of factory-coded Fw 190s from Germany after they had been withdrawn from combat in late May 1944 but before they left Italy in June. There's a long list of these
Stkz. on my website for those who are fascinated by such things!
My
guess is that the brown/green "Italy" camouflage (see also aircraft of I./JG 4 and NSG 9) was a local initiative and not applied during manufacture.