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Originally Posted by Webster
if they are spotted then they are going to be sunk so why would you think that they would ever use bright colors that attract attention?
they only did this in peace time
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Even in 1944 I would imagine that a significant number of merchant ships still had their peacetime colors.
No point painting over your yellow chimney and light-grey hull if you have a smoke plume almost a mile high.
Especially if your not even doing the main Atlantic run.