JCRAY wrote:
All her documentation was destroyed post-attack.
This doesn't mean much, to be honest. The ships weren't sending in a lot of documentation with regards to camouflage.
To Davegee - first off, welcome aboard. As other have said, it's a contentious issue. I'm one of the ones that fanned the flames and still keep the embers going. I
wrote a piece that lays out what I've found in the National Archives and what questions I had. I still peck away at it from time to time.
I remain open to the possibility that Arizona and some of the battle fleet was not painted in standard
Measure 1. There are a lot of photos that are inconclusive and textual documents that can point in either direction. Some say the absence of proof is proof of absence, but I say there are some questions we simply do not have the answer to yet and there's no shame in not knowing everything.
Of course, you want to build your model and not wait. We know for a fact that Arizona was painted in
Measure 1 for a lot of 1941. You won't be wrong for "1941" with standard Measure 1. You just might not be right for the Attack on Pearl Harbor, but even if I found proof I'm sure we'd still have plenty of people arguing about it until the lights go out.
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