Can anyone answer a question about RAF camouflage colours during WWII
Can anyone answer a question about RAF camouflage colours during WWII.
There is a lot of information about what colours were used on aircraft at different times and the particular patterns used and so on but not much on why certain changes were made.
In 1941 a change was made on fighter aircraft from the early war combination of Dark Green & Dark Earth to a Dark Green/Dark Grey combination. The same change was also made to the colours of specific bomber aircraft (the Mosquito is referred to the Air Ministry Order making the changes) but not to heavy bombers or night bombers.
I can see why dark grey and dark green would be a better combination of colours because there is actually very little brown visible from the air so my question is why not make the change for all aircraft?