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Originally Posted by Mohmar Deathstrike Exactly. Did they not realize that back then? |
Like mmarsh said, camo changed a lot over World War II. By the end of the war, actually, the Allies had stopped bothering to even camoflage their planes, which is why you see those nice silvery P-51s and B-29s - they didn't really need to anymore since they were making so many so fast and there was little air threat from the Axis.
I guess in the '50s they just kept doing what they had been since the mid '40s.