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If I can add my humble opinion to this thread, I'd like to say that there is nothing more unreliable than eyewitness accounts during or after a dogfight or any aerial combat.

Adrenaline, fear, speed, need to scan all the sky to avoid the famous "enemy at 6 o'clock", all contributed to lots of completely wrong sightings, type IDs, or camouflage & markings notes...!

Even in combats where it has been possible to positively determine the protagonists and the developments of the facts, the original reports very often narrates completely wrong data, numbers and results.

Speaking of colors, many of us certainly recall the fantasious color description of Bf 109 and Fw190 camouflages (including the mythical "all yellow 190"...) in the otherwise wonderful "The Big Show" by Pierre Clostermann.

Thus, considering all this and the many accounts examined, I dare to say that to take a colour ID during a combat as a starting point is a very fragile base IMHO, or at least something that should be taken with a very huge pinch of salt.

Of course, this is only my point of view...