My understanding with Caterpillar and much of the same kind of earthmoving or heavy equipment being produced during the 2nd world war is that the government had so many purchase orders with Caterpillar and others, that civilian sales were highly restricted, given the need for this kind of equipment to win the war in 2 theaters, as well as the need for huge civil projects like the Al-Can Highway that was built concurrently during the 2nd world war.
I am under the impression that Caterpillar did paint everything they manufactured in that period, olive drab green, but its speculation, not sure if that is entirely true, but the government bought 10,000 tractors at a time with some models, like the D7 tractor. Thankfully the war ended before some of those purchase orders were filled, so there was a lot of surplus tractors in O.D. Green that ended up all over the world, much of it here in the U.S. some still turn up in original O.D. green. Lets also not forget the lusterless drab blue paint used for marking these tractors with nomenclature.
Lot of green paint under the yellow on this old one that resides at my place, layers of it actually.
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