Posted by Clint Dixon [172.68.59.174] on Friday, October 14, 2016 at 10:06:42 :
In Reply to: Lusterless Blue Drab? posted by dave horvath [108.162.219.174] on Friday, October 14, 2016 at 09:35:03 :
Don't know about the color. I did have a close friend who restored a 1/2-ton carryall in Navy colors. He did a lot of research and found that the Navy used at least three different shades of gray/blue during WWII. The early trucks were actually painted entirely black. And, he found out in order to be correct, the gray/blue should be applied over the correct olive drab color for that year - only on the body, bumpers, wheels, etc. - leaving the undercarriage olive drab.
I guess the reason was that all the trucks left the assembly line painted for the Army or Marines and the Navy painted over that with their gray/blue.
Junior