Octane (#11749),
No, had not noticed the white. I think all the aircraft would be in the usual brown and green (very effective) jungle camouflage on top, duck-egg blue below.
Yes, "Stew" Mobsby had been facing backward during the dive, but by the time I'd got the thing out into a shallow dive to the tree tops, all he would see would be a small cloud of dust and smoke (assuming I was the leader). The other five would only see bigger and better clouds. Six (if he were watching on top) might see my bomb flash on target before he rolled over, and could report on accuracy. Black smoke was a good sign, showed you'd hit a petroleum product, or rubber - clearly war supplies going up north to the Jap armies round Imphal.
In training, we used small 11½ lb smoke bombs so it was easy to spot what you'd done. There would be, (not too close to target) two range observers, 90° apart, with some sort of theodolites, to plot results.
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Danny.