Thread: "Deceptive" camouflage US Navy
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Old 18th February 2025, 15:27
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Re: "Deceptive" camouflage US Navy
Dazzle camouflage (of which that Hancock photo is an amazing example, by the way) goes back to the Great War, with a number of Britain's then-modern artists involved in producing schemes for the armed forces, some of which also figured in their own paintings.

Edward Wadsworth: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..._Liverpool.jpg

C.R.W. Nevinson: https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.ne...M_5275-001.jpg

Uncredited: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205183559
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