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Re: Blue or Blue-Gray Camouflage on Bf 109E
There was a lot of experimentation carried out by the 109 units during the BoB. This generally involved the use of different shades of grey, and eventually evolved into the mid-war standard of 74/75/76. In colour photos of the time, grey does tend to "pick up" the blue of the sky and look bluer in the photos than in real life. Yes, I am sure there are a number of comments in RAF intelligence reports, although it seems that their use of colour terminology was , unsurprisingly, very loose.
However, the Johnson/Galland story may refer to the painting out of the very obvious blue 65 fuselage sides of the earlier 109 scheme. Previous to this a fighter with a high demarcation was German, a low demarcation was Allied. Overpainting of the light blue with a camouflage colour would negate this difference.
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