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Color Profiles

This particular page presents the various color schemes that adorned aircraft of the Indian Air Force during the Second World War.

The SEAC scheme dropped the red roundel and finflash completely from Allied aircraft, replacing it with a light blue inner roundel.

 

 

 

Color Profiles
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new.gif (147 bytes)Westland Wapiti K-1260 of a Coastal Defence Flight
A color profile of a Hurricane IIc of No.3 IAF Squadron
Hurricane IIc, LE-146 of No.2 Squadron, IAF at Akyab Burma 1945.
This illustration of a Hurricane II shows the Color scheme adopted  by aircraft in the SEAC sector. The Red roundel was removed to avoid confusion with the rising sun emblem of the Japanese Army Air Force (Pic courtesy :RAF)
A Vengeance of No.8 Sqn is illustrated in this color profile.
Hurricane FR IIc , LD-903 'N' of No.10 Squadron IAF at Kyaukpyu, Burma in April 1945.
Hurricane Mk IIc , KZ-365 'A-A' of No.1 Squadron IAF at Imphal, India in 1944 with a personalised marking of an Elephant.
Hurricane Mk IIc , KZ-371 'R' of No.1 Squadron IAF at Miranshah, NWFP in late 1943.
This Spitfire XIV replaced Hurricanes towards the end of the war.

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