Originally Posted by
Lomon
Did some research once for a staff ride to Normandy and found an account of an RAF Cpl radio operator who was sent with the US troops to Omaha beach.
When he went ashore (in a blue RAF battledress) he found that he was being shot at from the front by the Germans, and from the rear by US troops from the other landing craft who weren't expecting someone in a blue/grey uniform on the beach to be friendly.
Not faulting your reasoning, Lomon, but, post-square bashing basics, the likes of 2788 Sqn were issued with khaki battledress, worn with RAF Regiment blue shoulder titles, from the onset of their (Guards Division-led) training (at the 'closed for the duration' Filey Butlins holiday camp...) in 1942, onwards.
And, ironically, the largest wartime user of British-issued khaki battledress, outside of the allied Empire nations, was probably the German Kriegsmarine who captured a huge stockpile of them at Dunkirk, re-badged them and issued them to their U-boat crews...
Enough thread drift! Back to you, Langley.....