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Old 22nd March 2009, 16:44
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Question 366.FG colours

I have a lot of 366.FG pictures but obviously they're black&white so it is impossible to recognise the colours on them. Basically I'm struggling with cowls colours and stripes on the tails.
Olive drab razorbacks had light cowls but not sure what colour was that, white, yellow perhaps? (Holt's "Magic Carpet" or Smith's "The Chief")
There was also no "standarisation" for painting for silver bubble-tops since they arrived. Some of them had horizontal bands across fin and rudder, some of them just across fin and finally some of them were without stripes at all.
I' ve been told that someone was trying to make a Bob Brulle's "Virginia" P-47's model but pilot didn't remember the colours accurately. Lt Kennedy's son has mentioned (in an email to my colleague) that most of the 366.FG ''jugs'' had black anti-glare paint on the top of the aircraft (to the tail), most of their cowls were painted red with yellow painted propeller hubs and red tips on the prop blades. Each 366.FG sqn had different colour of the hub but probably 390.FS had them in yellow. I was also told that on the very unique colour picture of the 389.FS's plane red hub can be seen.
I've seen nice picture/drawing of Lt Fox's (391.FS) "Strossie Mae'' (nose-art in red) with black cowl and black stripe across fin and rudder.
Also a black& white invasion stripes were in use for very long time after Invasion.
Any help in this matter will be very apprieciated.
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