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Hi David,
I have studied the Stropp Albatros for some years now. I was fortunate to obtain some of the original fabric from this machine. I had correspondance with Robert Mikesh, the then curator of the museum, as early as 1981 telling him that I felt that the aircraft should have green/mauve camouflage, as opposed to the lozenge pattern. There is a picture in the Smithsonian book on this aircraft of another Albatros DVa, D.7352. The page number escapes me but the important fact is that this aircraft is from the same production run as D.7161 ordered in Oct. 1917.
This aircraft has the green/mauve camouflage. I believe that the top wing pattern was mauve/green/mauve, the bottom port wing (left to right, pilot's view) was green/mauve, with the bottom starboard wing mauve/green . The borders between this colors were angled to the right ( m / g / m),
(g / m) and ( m / g).
I derived this from studying this photo. Granted, there were a few variations of this pattern, so I am not 100% assured that the Stropp DVa had this same pattern. Maybe someone else can give you exactly what camouflage pattern it had. This may be difficult, as the aircraft arrived here in the U.S. with substitute wings. Maybe Dan or Greg can help us.
Regards,
JASTA75
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