The US Navy developed a camouflage pattern based on small stripes. It seems to have been originally intended for small, fast, motor torpedo boats, usually called PT boats at the time. The French Cruiser GLOIRE was the largest ship to carry the pattern during the war. Recently I ran across a picture of an American small minesweeper that also carried the pattern. This stripey idea, first developed for Elco built craft, was called the “Adaptor” scheme, or “zebra” camouflage. All the boats of PT Squadron 10 were reported as being originally painted with it. I had never seen it on other types of vessels except for the GLOIRE. Now I see it was also used elsewhere.
Wetherhorn 
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WARSHIP WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2021@19:16- THESE WARSHIPS WITH CAMOUFLAGE, WERE PAINTED LIKE THIS FOR A VERY, VERY GOOD REASON!!! THEIR ENEMIES AT SEA, HAD VERY MANY PROBLEMS OBTAINING A FIX, LATITUDE/LONGITUDE, ON ALL WARSHIPS PAINTED WITH THIS KING OF CAMOUFLAGE…BEARING AND RANGE…WERE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT AND SOMETIMES IMPOSSIBLE…BY THE ENEMY…NAVAL FORCES, AIR FORCES, LAND BOMBARDMENT, ETC!!! COULD YOU JUST IMAGINE LOOKING THROUGH A SUBMARINE’S PERISCOPE, BINOCULARS, ETC., AND OBTAINING A FIX…BEARING AND A RANGE, ON ANY WARSHIP, MERCHANT VESSEL, ETC., PAINTED WITH THIS CAMOUFLAGE SCHEME? IF YOU RESEARCH THE SURF THE WEBS, YOU WILL FIND WARSHIPS PAINTED IN THIS SCHEME OF CAMOUFLAGE, AND JUST TRY TO IMAGINE DURING W.W.II, W.W.I; OBTAINING A FIX=ON A VESSEL AS SUCH…BEARING AND RANGE…MY EYES ARE FEELING VERY, VERY STRANGE!!! Brian MURZA, Killick Vison, W.W.II NAVAL RESEARCHER-PUBLISHED AUTHOR, Niagara Falls, Ontario, CANADA. CREDIT: Wetherhorn.
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