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as you can see the colour is overall dark..............doh, yes for low lefvel bombing and skimming the tops of the hills on their way back to base. slow speed in this case was an asset as many of the RAF Mossies and US 9th AF P-61's over ran these slow beasts and could not plough them down. Friend and CO of the US 425th nfs. Gilly Lewis came upon 3 of them on a night in 1945 and he was slowing down almost to a stall to get in behind the wedge formation but his cannon jammed up and the Stuka gunners saw him let off a burst of twin mg-81 fire and all 3 banked and dove down to the earth where he could not follow as he lost them in the ground haze/smoke and fires. In a word he was very pissed