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Tyres are rarely ever black but a very dark to quite light grey. For fairly good tyres I tend to use either Tamiya Nato Black which has a green ting that takes the edge off the black, for greyer tyres I use Revell anthracite which is a very dark grey but still grey if you know what I mean. It is then down to drybrushing to bring out detail and to match them to the terrain they are in. I think aircraft tyres should mainly look in good fairly clean condition but others may disagree. (they usually do.....)

You can get away with using Tamiya German Grey made to anything darker by mixing black into it.

Depends where and what the weather was like. That is not being funny, it really does depend on the ground colour you are using on your base/dio. As they came off the beaches, there would be light sandy dust but probably not as much as when going along roads which can be from light grey, tan to an earthy brown. remember that dust would show on tires but only as a fine coating. Where it gets heavy is cross country where dust turns to soil or mud. Again this can be from a tan colour to almost black. Tamiya Deck Tan, Flat Earth and Buff can be used to good effect for dusty tyres but be sparing if it is dust, a tyre could only hold so much as dust would fine coat but never get thick. For wet mud, mix some gloss varnish into the colour or Klear to give it a slightly shiny wet look, again don't go mad remember to tone things down to keep the appearance in scale.

I use Vallejo Black Grey once dirty and weathered looks fine to me.

You could also try Vallejo Panzer Aces Dark Rubber works ok for aircraft tires

Hope it helps
Regards
David