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Re: azure blue over white pru spitfire?
The obvious suggestion, then, would seem to be that PRU Blue a/c had the undersides overpainted with a lighter colour - white or an off-white.
This doesn't make too much sense, given that HQ ME believed that darker underside colours were more appropriate in the ME, replacing Sky undersides with Mediterranean Light Blue (itself quite close to PRU Blue, and often mis-called Azure Blue, which is indeed somewhat lighter.) Also, the ME mixed a colour sometimes called Bosun Blue for its PR Spitfires, which was darker than PRU Blue. See Geoff Thomas's Eyes of the Phoenix for more details.
So can we perhaps assume that the aircraft was used for low-level dawn/dusk missions, akin to the use of PRU Pink in the UK? Or just that local commanders were permitted to exercise their imagination?
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