Interesting note on the P-47M, from what I've read, those that were camouflaged were not painted in standard Air Corps colors.  Supposedly the camo paint came from a British auto shop, which gave the M models unique hues of blue and violet.

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I don't know, at all.  Maybe it was a squadron or group signiture.  Like some squads liked to fly in diamond formations... ???  I don't know.

Sock

I haven't seen this doco (wish I had) & know far too little about the P-47. I do know it's a mighty impressive looking machine.

From what Brensec is saying, this particular squadron were involved in ground support. I would assume they had adequate air cover & not expect to be in air to air combat. This is only a theory but maybe they used every aircraft they could get hold of. The razorbacks might then be equally distributed between flights. It sounds as good as any other theory to me unless anyone knows better.

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9th AF P-47s rarly had air cover.  And all USAAF figther pilots, regardless of role, were taught as fighter pilots to fly air-to-air missions.  Pilots were not taught much ground support tactics.  Many fighter-bomber pilots had kills to there credit.

Sock

Towards the end of the Doco, there is an account of the situation regarding the 100's of thousands of German soldiers that had to walk back to Germany when the War was over.
There is some footage of these often pathetic looking convoys of Germans walking down a road, with the odd American or Brit, who has no rifle pointed or at the ready, just over the shoulder etc.

The amazing thing, to me at least, is that there are clearly what appear to be SS Officers, in full garb, happily chatting to GI's, and laughing etc.

How could this have been? They are Waffen SS, who I'm led to believe were just fighting soldiers and not involved in the atrocities etc. (However, I have seen other Doco's that have poked a few holes in this 'fact').

Even so, after having liberated the Death camps, how could these GI's etc be so ready to just forget and treat the blokes as anything other than animals. Surely the 'very obvious' skull and cross bones on the cap would be enough for them to realise who and what these blokes were. Many of the Wermacht hated them and what they knew they had done.

Maybe I'm being too harsh. maybe I'm assuming that every GI and Brit and Frenchman etc was aware, and had seen first hand, the work of the people. Maybe it was known then that the Waffen SS were not involved in this stuff? I dunno. I just saw it as..........surprising. 

It is strange to see on a couple of occasions, a truck or car (loaed with, what appear to be relatively healthy Germans) go passed a legless or obvious badly wounded German, hoobling down the road.......................What a terrible time, when even the slightest degree of human decency seems to have gone out the window.