Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook

Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook
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Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 0971324476
ISBN-13 : 9780971324473
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Book Synopsis Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook by : Roy R. Behrens

Download or read book Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook written by Roy R. Behrens and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of twenty-seven World War I-era essays, by various authors, on ship camouflage from that time period. It focuses primarily on American and British camouflage, and especially on "dazzle camouflage," a counter-intuitive method in which brightly colored abstract shapes were applied to the ship's surface. The purpose of such camouflage was not low visibility, but to make it difficult to aim a torpedo at a distant, moving ship from a submerged submarine (U-boat), while peering through a periscope. The book includes 275 drawings, diagrams and vintage photographs, and a 40-page camouflage bibiliography, the largest ever.


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