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Re: Japanese bomber photo 4 - 8
A minor ( probably superfluous) addition to the post. The dark colour on "Peggy" and "Frances" is not camouflage but the anti-corrosive plastic coating ( "Plastiphane") used for on-deck deliveries; it could be peeled off quickly unlike the previous material " Par-al-ketone" which had to be removed with kerosene, white spirit or various solvents and washed off.
A small fighter like a P-51 needed about 30 gallons of Plastiphane for treatment.
It was standard in 1944-45 and also seen on some deck-loaded aircraft for Korea post-war.
Nick
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