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Re: Spitfire camouflage
As they possess the Sky fuselage band, that would suggest they were in the Day Fighter Scheme: Dark Green, Ocean Grey over Medium Sea Grey. The Desert Scheme of Mid Stone, Dark Earth over (probably) Azure Blue was largely stopped after the North African campaign. It was initially replaced by overpainting the Mid Stone with Dark Green, reproducing the earlier Temperate land Scheme. This was quite common in the RAF in Italy, with various undersides, more so than the Day Fighter scheme, at least until late on.
Red spinners were a theatre marking for North African operations, they do not seem to have been so prelevant in Italy. Sky spinners would normally go with the Sky fuselage band, but (from memory) a darker colour was often used, perhaps Dark Earth, or perhaps just squadron preference. It is a subject that needs more research.
I'm unsure how common the yellow leading edge was in Italy, but would assume it without evidence otherwise.
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