Looks like the trainers were all silver at that time. When I started primary some 7 years later, they had just replaced the SNJ with the T-34/T-28, and they were all painted yellow.
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The SNJ's were yellow by 1952. Or at least one of them was. Below are F6F Hellcats flown by advanced studs on a cross country in 1954. Looks like by the time you got to advanced you earned a Navy blue bird.
