'Operation Downfall' Bearcats

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Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat - No.1482 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy British Pacific Fleet, 1946

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Playing Aces over the Pacific 1946 expansion, right? :)

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Actually, no. There was a reference to 'Operation Downfall' over at What If Modellers with speculation over what colour invasion stripes would have been used (if any). The above is my trial at SEAC blue tones but someone suggested orange and yellow so I also tried that on a Kiwi Bearcat (below);

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Pretty interesting!