Luftwaffe captured P-51B color question??
Sun Jun 01, 2008 12:05 pm
Hello everyone.
Below are pictures of a new 1/72 scale diecast P-51B model that just came out.
There has neen much debate on the diecast model forums as to weather the color is correct.
Some say it should have had a olive drap upper surface while others say the aircraft had been painted both gary, OD & finally striped to bare metal during it's time with the Lufwaffe.
I figured with the wealth of knowledge on this forum someone might have more insight on this matter.
Thanks.
Below are pictures of a new 1/72 scale diecast P-51B model that just came out.
There has neen much debate on the diecast model forums as to weather the color is correct.
Some say it should have had a olive drap upper surface while others say the aircraft had been painted both gary, OD & finally striped to bare metal during it's time with the Lufwaffe.
I figured with the wealth of knowledge on this forum someone might have more insight on this matter.
Thanks.
Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:33 pm
Topside is RLM74 and underside is RLM04.
Sun Jun 01, 2008 7:25 pm
Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:33 pm
Even if the color is correct (which is open to debate) the Luftwaffe certainly wouldn't repaint the US stencils.
SN
SN
Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:57 pm
Here are a couple of pics from "Strangers in a Strange Land" (Squadron-Signal, 1988.)
The only mention in the text is this:
It is believed that a total of two P-51B and four P-51D Mustangs were operated by the Luftwaffe during WWII. The first Luftwaffe Mustang is beleived to have been captured at Cambrai on D-Day. The aircraft was tested at Rechlin with the Test Center code 8+7. Another Mustang, and olive drab over neutral gray P-51B coded T9+CK, was evaluated at Hannover-Wunstorf during the swummer of 1944. Later the camouflage was removed and the bare metal T9+CK was seen in late 1944 at Paderborn airfield. Another P-51B, coded T9+HK was reported at Orienburg, Rechlin, and Neuruppin. At least two Luftwaffed P-51Ds were repainted in a dark green camouflage and were later recaptured in a derelict condition by U.S. troops in May of 1945.
It seems possible to me the P-51B could have been repainted in a Luftwaffe green, but I rather doubt it.
SN
The only mention in the text is this:
It is believed that a total of two P-51B and four P-51D Mustangs were operated by the Luftwaffe during WWII. The first Luftwaffe Mustang is beleived to have been captured at Cambrai on D-Day. The aircraft was tested at Rechlin with the Test Center code 8+7. Another Mustang, and olive drab over neutral gray P-51B coded T9+CK, was evaluated at Hannover-Wunstorf during the swummer of 1944. Later the camouflage was removed and the bare metal T9+CK was seen in late 1944 at Paderborn airfield. Another P-51B, coded T9+HK was reported at Orienburg, Rechlin, and Neuruppin. At least two Luftwaffed P-51Ds were repainted in a dark green camouflage and were later recaptured in a derelict condition by U.S. troops in May of 1945.
It seems possible to me the P-51B could have been repainted in a Luftwaffe green, but I rather doubt it.
SN
Sun Jun 01, 2008 10:24 pm
If I remember correctly, on the Tuskegee Airman episode of Dogfights, of them had a fight with a bare metal/yellow captured P-51B. Any one else remember this episode?
Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:58 am
The color photo of "CK" with OD upper surface is in Karl Reis DORA... four volume series (circa 1967).