[Llarry]

A couple of footnotes to my post above (#2655) on Navy & Marine Corps aircraft colors:

-- There were units during WWII, Korea and Vietnam that flew all-black aircraft for night missions. Among the most celebrated were the Consolidated PBY "Black Cat" Catalinas that operated against Japanese forces during World War II.

-- For reasons that don't make a lot of sense to me, during the Vietnam era there were some experiments in painting carrier aircraft in Air Force-style camouflage colors of green and brown. The last I checked, there is very little foliage on an aircraft carrier deck! Here's an A-6 from the 1980s so painted.