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Originally Posted by Mankster  Its going to be pretty hard to say for sure. Alot of these boats went through different colours/shade/camo schemes depending on the captains preferance and what paint was left and the dockside. Ceratinly looks a darker shade on the b&w photo. |
Hi Mankster the directive late in the war was to darken the boats to hide from hunter aircraft when at periscope depth. I also understand there was an attempt to camo the decks to break up the sillohette of the subs at periscope depth I have matched the color of U-805 spot on ,but I'm going hold off and make sure before I commit,but your right about them using what ever paint they had on hand, thank you for your help. Glenn