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Such a Fw 190 will probably be in dark color
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They weren't, all the available photos show that the Fw 190s of 1./NSGr. 9 were painted in normal day fighter camouflage. Reports of all-black aircraft (of various types) are a recurring feature of the Italian campaign for some reason.
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is there a trace of a German sortie in the morning of 3 March 1945 on the Italian front?
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Not that I was able to find in either Allied or German sources. Strafing of Highway 65 was reported the 1st and then there was the combat on the evening of the 3rd.
When I came to write "Ghost Bombers: The Moonlight War of NSG 9" (Classic, 2001) I was able to include the recollections of Ltn. Willi Ferling, the surviving Fw 190 pilot from the 3 March evening mission, as well as those of Delbert Wylder who flew one of the P-47s..