Ari. and other BB turret top colors.

Modeling Subjects Ships
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Hi

I saw it reported some time ago, that Arizona had red{same as insignia red?} turret tops. Is there any other colors used by the other BB’s. particularly Pennsylvania?

SteveH

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Check out the link on an earlier thread by aurora7 from the Honolulu Star-Bulletin on Dec. 7, 2006. It had a drawing of the ARIZONA’s colors plus pics of the new official museum model and the colors for battleship divisions.

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BATDIV 1 – Red (solid)

BATDIV 2 – White (Solid)

BATDIV 3 – Blue (Solid)

BATDIV 4 – Black (Solid)

BATDIV 5 – Yellow (Solid)

CRUDIV 2 – Yellow (Double stripe)

CRUDIV 3 – Red (double stripe)

CRUDIV 4 – Blue (single stripe)

CRUDIV 5 – Yellow (single stripe)

CRUDIV 6 – Black (single stripe)

CRUDIV 7 – Green (single stripe)

CRUDIV 8 – Black (double stripe)

CRUDIV 9 – Green (double stripe)

Light Cruisers

USS Detroit & Raleigh – Blue (double stripe)

USS Richmond – Red (double stripe)

USS Augusta and Omaha – Red (single stripe)

In addition, battleships and cruisers were to paint the top of their after turret or enclosed mount to correspond with the section colors of their embarked aircraft. The colors were red, white, blue, black, green, and yellow for the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth sections (respectively).