RLM 81/82 – More secrets unveiled

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Originally Posted by Dénes Bernád

A document issued by Messerschmitt Augsburg on 29 July 1944 lists RLM 81 (olive brown) and RLM 82 (light green) as replacement for RLM 75 and RLM 76 on fighter, reconnaissance and ground attack aircraft. An official Hungarian translation will be included in my upcoming book on Hungarian fighter colours.

Is that a typo? Would it not be 74/75 rather than 75 and 76, as 76 was a light blue underside color.

But it still raises the question of why the switch from the "grays/greys" of air superiority aircraft, to the Browns and Greens of ground concealment.