CAMOUFLAGE EXHIBITION IN LONDON
The examples of camouflage, which were shown in October at the lioya! Academy, wero an interesting revelation of the ingenious methods employed by tho British Army to deceive the German airman on "photographic reconnaissance.''' Ono model showed how it dump was concealed. Fish netting, covered in Mich a way (hat it harmonised with (he .surrounding coiinlry, was spread over dim whole of the dump. That, however, was not enough. A road lending into the dump wns painted on tin; coverius. to give the impression that it was merely going across liprn count rv, and a railway line'whir.li fed Ihe dump was curried 011 in a "dummy" dump some di.-laiice Another model showed a gull cleverly concealed in the yard of a .ruined Flemish farm, and a third—perhaps the best example of camouflaging—showed i: battery so skilfully coincided that it would even deceive air aeroplane camera at 12,000 feet. Other most inlorcsling models demonstrated the efficiency which the camouflage artist had attained in the closing stages of the war. There was also an exhibition of war picluica,
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 76, 23 December 1919, Page 7
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180CAMOUFLAGE EXHIBITION IN LONDON Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 76, 23 December 1919, Page 7
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