I have a very odd question about WWII uniforms. (Please don’t ask.)
What, if any, branch of service wore blue and would have shot down enemy aircraft? I also need the nationality.
The US Navy dress uniform was and is blue. The French dress uniform in WWII was light blue.
As far as I can determine from exhaustive research, almost any branch of any service of any country would have shot down all the enemy aircraft that they could.
But they wouldn’t have worn a dress uniform in battle, correct?
What color were the working clothes?
COuld you be a little more ‘Pacific?’ Blue is a very common uniform color.
Not sure. Maybe pix are available on Google or other sites.
The US Army wore green fatigues in combat. Except for Patton’s 3[sup]rd[/sup] Army which wore ties with neatly pressed uniforms.
The above quote is, of course, fictitious but I can just see ole George giving such an order.
The RAF uniform was blue in colour. And they went into battle wearing the full shirt and tie IIRC, why they then wore silk scarves, to stop the collar rubbing their neck.
I’m citing the many history programmes in the UK that show pilots stepping out of their machines in their uniforms under parachutes and headgear.
US Navy working uniform, dungarees, are - and were in WWII - blue denim, bell bottom trousers and light blue chambray shirt.
I can’t be. Believe me, you don’t want to know. All I have to go in is men in blue during WWII who shot down airplanes.
The Royal Air Force uniform for pilots during WWII was blue, the only image I found through Google (in colour) was WWII RAF Squadron Leader “Keith Gordon”, a toy on what appears to be a Dutch website 
Is that what you were looking for?
The US Navy enlisted personel wore blue woolen pullovers in the winter along with there blue woolen bell bottom trousers. They didn’t go to jeans until after the war . I believe that they wore the cambray shirts in the summertime with cotton bell bottom trousers. The also had two styles of hats, one the “donald duck” style that practly no US serviceman wore after 1943 (or boot camp) and the now traditional “Gilligan” style hat which came in three colors (pure white, pale yellow, and very light blue). My dad served in the navy in WW2 so this info comes from a direct source. 
The British navy enlisted men also wore blue and shoot down planes. Could you post a pic?
Padeye - you were right he called them dungarees. Didn’t make the connection between them and Jeans right away. :smack:
If you’re not confining yourself to US armed services then I think Pushkin is probably correct. The RAF were commonly called “the boys in blue” and they did indeed shoot down the occasional aircraft.
Here’s a picture if you needed it.
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/history/2004/03/images/great_escape_raf_uniform.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/shropshire/history/2004/03/great_escape_06.shtml&h=200&w=150&sz=10&tbnid=OGDB8aeF7cYJ:&tbnh=99&tbnw=74&start=1&prev=/images%3Fq%3Draf%2Buniform%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DG
Thank you. I appreciate your help.
One of the Luftwaffe uniforms was a light blue, and they had AA guns.