Invasion Striped Typhoon?

If you look carefully at the image, this appears to be an early version of the “Identification scheme” with the black underwing stripes painted over the mid-grey undersides. The white bands were added to the scheme later on, after the white painted nose had been discontinued as it was very unpopular with the Typhoon pilots.

Thanks!

This photo has me puzzled (but that’s easily done).

Can somebody with knowledge of Typhoons explain how this photo appeared in print in May 1943 … or are they NOT Invasion Stripes :confused:

There was concern that the Typhoon would be confused for the FW190 so various identification paint schemes were applied, including the one pictured. The “standard” paint job seems to have settled at black/white underwing stripes (usually 4 black stripes rather than the 2 in the D-Day “invasion stripes”) and a single yellow stripe chordwise on the top of the wing. For similar reasons the Tempest 2 had a white nose ring and wing stripes.