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Re: RLM colours please.
Pilot,
It is the Fw 190 A-5/U3 WNr 0151227, White A of 4/JG54, shot down on 19th July of 1943.
There is somewhere in this forum a very complete report on this plane.
There are also two colour photos in Merrick's mentioned book (page 107) as an example of the use of colours 61 and 62, soon to be 81 and 82 (according to Merrick's theory, that I believe very sound).
I have seen in other reply to this subject an unknown to me photo of Adalbert Kuhn's Gelbe 9 (9/JG3) with Russian personnel around.
I guess if someone among the Russian members of this forum could try to find any report on the colours sported by the captured German planes.
I think that tis information could surely have been recorded.
This would be almost definitive, even thinking that in spite of the many British reports on downed planes during the Battle of Britain, the controversy on colours is still open...
This is just to say that, about the I and III/JG3 colours during the spring and early summer of 1942, my impression since long is that the real colours could be 78, 79 and, yes, 61 and 62. Sorry...
There are several Russian photos of these unit's captured planes so, perhaps there are some reports still to be unearthed.
About the JG54, I think that several colour photos have clearly shown that 61 and 62 (with probably 63) were common in 1942 and 1943.
Regards, saludos
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