Purtiest Aircraft of WW2

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evangilder said:
I always thought German camo was interesting. Their airplanes and their uniforms all had some unique camouflage.
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Thats interesting you should mention how good the German camo was Eric my old man said he found a building in shore from Arromanche beach with what he took to be at least a 155mm gun sticking out and it was not until he was fifty feet from it the he realised it was just a painting on the side of a house, he also spoke to a tank commander who told him how the Germans put up concrete anti tank traps that where made of painted canvas a tank slowed down and a concealed guy with a panzerfaust whacked it so the next time a tank put a squirt from its MG through the mock up trap as it went to pieces it drove though it, straight over an anti tank mine underneath. Crafty old sods those Jerrys.
 
I've told you about the German trick with the MG42 haven't I? Well, I'll tell you again just in case;

They used to set up two MG42 positions. During the night they'd fire one off with tracer ammo and they'd set it up too high to hit anyone because they could sneak under it's line of fire. They'd set the other one up lower so it could hit.

The troops would believe that they could sneak under these tracers (which they could) but by the time they realised there was another MG42 firing at them, half their squad had been dropped.
 
Absoulute genius! Best way to bring down an on-coming squad or platoon or even a division back then.

Here's what i meant by spotted camo on tanks.
 

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The Afrika Korps did not really have any different cammo. Most of the soldiers still wore feld grau uniforms. Many did have tan khaki uniforms like one of the ones that I have in my collection. Most of the aircraft were just brown. A couple had that really cool chocolate chip cammo that we have seen pictures of.
 
I like some of the British fighter Camo. From the allies though I liked the Australian Camo the best especially the Aussie Spitfires that we have seen pictures of.
 
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