LCVP paint scheme

Definately not hull red.

Such as the LCVPs and LCMs carried by attack transports and attack cargo ships were actually in the water for a relatively short time there was no need to paint their bottoms for anti-fouling purposes.  

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As you can see, the boat group on the Joseph Dickman did not have their lower hulls painted.  The Dickman is in Measure 22 -- 5-H Haze Gray over 5-N Navy Blue.

Also note that the boats were camouflaged in accordance to where they were normally stowed on the davits.  They were painted to match the ship's camouflage.   In this instance most of the boats were 5-H  Haze Gray.   The Dickman is good as she participated in Normandy, landing troops on Utah.  There are no photos of the Dickman in June'44, but there is a dark photo of her in August '44 for the Invasion of Southern France.  She is still in Measure 22 (you may need to squint)

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LCVPs and LCMs which were assigned to a rear logistics base and served as lighters may have had their bottoms painted.   They would not have been regularly pulled out of the water.

That may be my father's ship - the USS Oberon (AKA-14) - in the background

See the camouflage design sheets for several boat carrying ships:

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Note the directions for the patterned camouflage on the LCP(R)s slung on this APD wrap around the lower hull.  Note too the camouflaged decks on the Peter boats

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Note specific patterns called out for the boats carried on the Doyen (APA-1) class

The National D-Day museum LCVP is painted gray.  There are some decent photos of the building of that LCVP on their site.

Thanks EdGrune!

You hit the exact transport the markings for my LCVP kit are for, APA-13, USS Joseph T. Dickman. So based on these pics it looks like overall Haze Gray. Very interesting, but makes perfect sense about matching the mother ships camo scheme, and not needing the bottoms painted in anti fouling paint. Thank you very very much! And thank you to all teh others who replied to my post/question here.

Carlos