My understanding is that ‘ice ceam’ is for raids on Italy and red is for missions to Berlin

Apologies for moving the thread off track again, but to put some flesh on to Alberts’ raw data, the first thirty L5s’ were delivered to the Indian MU at Jodphur. Here they were assembled and test flown by John Dunbar, his only reference material being the pilots’ notes. This was the first time that any of the pilots had seen an L5. When one fuselage was removed from its’ crate, it was found to have American markings on one side, and British markings on the other side.
On arrival in Burma (Imphal) the pilots and aircraft were split between 4 Corps, 15 Corps and 33 Corps. Of the 100 aircraft delivered, 60 were written off in take off or landing accidents in the Burmese jungle.

A good friend of mine, the late Sqdn Ldr John Gee flew Richard Dimbleby on the Kleve raid. They had to drop to 4,000 ft to see the target due to bad weather.
John wrote a book in which he described the sortie. PM me and I will send you the details.

I think I’m going to hide!