https://historylink101.com/ww2_navy/org/aircarr/USSEnterprise/1590.html
Gray Mototug on Intrepid:
https://historylink101.com/ww2_navy/org/aircarr/USSIntrepid/4117.html
This Tilly is rather blue:
https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Hellcat/F6F-3/pages/A-color-photo-showing-a-pair-of-Grumman-F6F-3-Hellcats-about-to-be-launched-01.html
This is actually a famous photo, and I have it in one of my books, larger and sharper than this. Look beneath the plane. See the wheels of the aircraft tugs lined up along the island? See the dark blue-gray color?
https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Hellcat/VF5/pages/Grumman-F6F-3-Hellcat-VF-5-White-00-Marcus-Island-raid-CV-10-USS-Yorktown-1943-01.html
The few color photos I find show this color for jeeps, tugs and the Tilly through 1944. I have seen one late war dated color image of mototugs in gray, but it looks to be a screen capture from a movie, so I don't trust it. Still, the black and white mototug images I find from the Kate war (1945) do seem to show them generally in a lighter looking color. The more black and white stuff I stare at, though, the more I am agreeing you can't really tell much about their actual color. One picture has me thinking one way, but the next image I see has me thinking another.
How were the tractors, jeeps, and Tilly cranes painted during WWII ?
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