"Colors of Captured A6M2?" Topic
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 gamertom  | 15 Nov 2013 5:39 p.m. PST |
This photo was featured in yesterday's Space.com "space history photo:"
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It looks like it has been repainted with OD top and light gray bottom, but does anyone know the actual colors it had when found and then if it was repainted? |
| Heisler | 15 Nov 2013 7:58 p.m. PST |
From the pictures taken in Alaska, it looks like it was painted in an overall light grey scheme. I'm not very familiar with the camouflage patterns of Japanese aircraft, so I suppose it could be a very light green. |
| Ryan T | 15 Nov 2013 10:37 p.m. PST |
A6M2 D1-108 (s/n 4593) was captured in 1942 and subsequently restored by the US Navy. It was repainted in the standard Navy scheme of Non-Specular Blue-Gray over Light Gray. Prior to its loss D1-108 had the standard olive-gray finish common to all Zeros manufactured before about April 1943. Its tail code of D1-108 was in red and it had a single yellow band around the fuselage. No Zeros were ever painted in a light gray colour. All were camouflaged with an olive-gray paint. Later in the war, when the upper surfaces were painted dark green, the under surfaces still remained in the same shade of olive-gray. Several years ago when the Blayd Corp. remanufactured an A6M2 the paint was matched with a number of existing samples from several different Zeros recovered from the Solomons. A photo of this Zero provides a good idea of the original colours used on these planes.
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