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Re: Colors of I./JG 1 insigna on He 162
Apart from the aforementioned interpretation (i.e., the Hell's fire and vapour of Hell) of the emblem's motif, which would explain the usage of yellow colour for the emblem background, there is also a PK Kriegsberichter's note dated 13 December 1939, made during or after his visit to then 2./JGr 101, where it was written simply "Der Teufel aus den Wolken!".
For the latter, one would expect the background colour to be a sky (i.e., light) blue, as originally presented by Karl Ries in his groundbreaking work from the early 1960's.
Whether there indeed was a variant of the emblem with the blue background, which was then at a certain point in time changed to yellow, is hard to tell.
Hope that the above helps.
Last edited by sidney; 9th March 2017 at 10:37.
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