Quote Originally Posted by Jerry View Post
Mayve a bit off topic, but "Pink seems to be a good nighttime camo color. The Military channel had a special on the other night about the British SAS. It seems that in WW II they used a pink land rover in desert operations, and it was darn near invisible in the desert at night. The color was called "Mountbatten Pink". It seems that Lord Mountbatten , first lord of the admiralty, discovered that ships painted that color were very difficult to see on dark nights at sea. But, to quote the military channel show, "after a few experiments, the idea was dropped because British sailors were reluctant to go to sea in Pink ships." I am sure, however, our distinguished mods would have no such reluctance to wear such a camo kilt, especially with the color's illustrious military history.
I believe you'll find that the SAS used Land Rovers after the war as indeed Landies were not dsigned until after. Word is that the bodies were made from aircraft aluminum as this was more plentiful than steel. I also believe that the colour of the SAS landies were dubbed Panther Pink. I'd be curious if they still used some form of that colouring today. The camouflage Multicam uses a pink in it and is one of the most effective camo in many different environments.