Blue or Blue-Gray Camouflage on Bf 109E

[cproyston]

Just thought I'd add a little bit to this.

Discerning an aircraft's camouflage from an intelligence (or other report) isn't very reliable. I have a copy of the A.I.2(g) report for Theo Nibel's Fw 190D-9 (Wnr 210079), which describes the aircraft as camouflaged "a green, which is brighter than that normally seen", whereas the aircraft actually carried a well-documented (by Eric Larger and others) rather more mundane factory 76/75/83/82 scheme.

I guess it boils down to the "eye of the beholder", in the above case someone who'd presumably not seen Hellgrun before and based his description of the camouflage scheme around that fact.

As I say, just my little bit to add,

Chris

[Graham Boak]

How long has 82/83 been "mundane"? To me, it seems highly reasonable that Hellgrun had not been commonly seen before new year 1945.