Quote Originally Posted by Michael Flemming View Post
The story that I have read is that vehicles and some aircraft, particularly the P-40, were painted in a "sand" color that was meant to blend with the North African terrain, but the tropical sun faded it to a pink color.
We are talking 1960's(ish) here, and they were definitely pink! Now we had better get back to somewhat nearer the question that was asked.

A "pink panther".