"6th fallschirmjäger vehicles in Normandy" Topic

anyone know if this units vehicles in Normandy had camo paint schemes or were they Dunkelb/Grey

any help appreciated

From what I can find, three color camo.

DM

I don't think there were any vehicles still in grey by Normandy. The primer color from the factory was the yellowy beige Dunkelgelb used as a base for the three color camo by that time.

Thats a very bold statement to make Naz… Have you checked them all? ;)

There were certainly grey trucks and softskins in use in Normandy. I have pics of both Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine registered trucks in grey in Normandy. 'D-Day to Berlin' by Terence Wise has a pic of them in it.

Generally though, most units would have had yellow paint schemes with varying degrees of camo dependant on the unit. Grey would be a rather rare occurance.

6th FJR had a fleet of trucks with nearly 50 different makes in them, so I would think paint schemes may have varied a little… I'd do them in dunkelgelb with over spray of green and/or brown or plain. Maybe one in grey just to be different… I do have a pic of an FJ truck, suppossedly with FJR6, used as an ambulance that seems to be in grey (though could be overall dark green of course… hard to tell with black and white).

My grandpa had a grey 251 with green stripes in normandy.
And the complete divison was still in grey in caen and arnheim. They were just repainted for the adennes and budapest.

Most softskins were grey untill the end…

thanks guys

@ Rudi

was your grandfather in the 6th FJ then ?, that would correlate with what my grandfather told me, he said that he and his unit hardly ever saw a camoflaged german vehicle, he said they saw mostly grey vehicles and some others that were what he called a "dirty yellow" colour which I rightly assume to be dunkelb

No

Interesting. We like to paint everything in jazzy 3 colour yellow/red/green cos it looks better – but it makes sense that a lot of non-combat vehicles would be left in grey or plain yellow. They would survive years expecially if not used much.

Curious which unit yur grandpa served with, if you don't mind sharing Rudi.

Presumably 9th or 10th SS, Rudi?

I'm guessing the 9th.

"Thats a very bold statement to make Naz… Have you checked them all? ;)"

Well, I did say "I don't think…", not there were none. I certainly don't claim to be an expert…