RLM 81/82 – More secrets unveiled

[Cpt_Farrel]

To get the full picture you can't just study the documents and official orders, but it's equally impossible to use the findings on wrecks only. Even if you have found hundreds of wrecks it's still a much too small percentage to speak in general terms. Just because the green on that Fw190 matched John Deere Green doesn't mean it was and it certainly doesn't mean that it was "the green" used by the Luftwaffe in the east as there must have been several.

Also, it's as far as I know not certain were these aircraft were repainted, they may just as well have been painted in Germany or at a depot far to the rear were use of unauthorized paint would have been unacceptable. I. and III./JG3 for example deployed with their aircraft painted up in a very special scheme that was done in Germany.

/Anders