How a submarine could end up painted pink

Was there really a pink American submarine, or was it only a model?

Possibly. The account cautiously recalls insufficient stocks of red and white protective paint being mixed.

A viewer asks whether the pink American submarine remembered from a film or model had any real counterpart. The recollection is cautious: one submarine may genuinely have been painted pink for a time. The explanation is logistical. The crew lacked enough red protective hull paint and enough white paint to cover the boat, so they mixed the two available stocks. The resulting pink was an improvised maintenance color with no planned camouflage rationale.