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Dan-San et al,
Some more things to think about....
- We have to remember that Udet and company were in a war zone actually fighting a war. As such, material shortages and the demands of operations may have had a lot to do with what was able to be done to the aircraft during this period. MAYBE there was very little in the way of paint available to Jasta 4 when these triplanes came over. MAYBE operational demands to have fighters in the air were such that it was impossible to take an airplane out of service long enough to do a major repaint job.
If Udet was faced with any or all of these things, there would have been little he could do but fly the plane AS IS, despite what he and his ego may have wanted to do with it.
Or, as Bucky said, he may just have dug what he saw and claimed it for himself. Slap on the "LO" and away I go.
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