French WWI ship Camouflage As in the case of the Italians, I also found French designs while researching material for my book about US ship camouflage in WWI, The Easter Egg Fleet. The French created a design bureau for French ships. The Belgians relied on the British. There were even some designs created for other … More French WWI ship camouflage
Portugal WWI camouflage I wrote about Brazilian ship camouflage in an earlier post. It seemed natural to follow it with something about Portugal because the 2 countries share a common language. There is even a special term form people who speak Portuguese. They are called lusophones. Prior to the outbreak of war Portugal had arguments … More Portugal WWI Camouflage
Color photography was still in it’s infancy during the First World War. There are a lot of photographs of ships. But they are always black and white. I mention this problem in my book, The Easter Egg Fleet. But there’s another aspect. Many artists today try to add color to their versions of those old … More WWI Ship Camouflage colors in on line photographs.
American ship camouflage in the First World War. This is the name of my new book. It will be available in a few months. I’ll post again when it is finally available. The cover picture is a colorized version of USS Isabel painted in a Mackay design.
The Canadian Navy started WW II as a small commonwealth force supporting the Royal Navy and ended the war , due to the demise of the German, Italian, Japanese, and French fleets, as the third largest in the world. Canada appointed her own war artists to document their country’s contributions to the war. This included … More Canadian WW II Ship Camouflage
You can find a reference to all my Japanese ship camouflage posts at: https//wetherhorn.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/japanese-ship-camouflage-cross-reference/ After putting up pages on my original blog with pictures of Japanese WW II camouflage I realized that a better description of the background to Japanese ship camouflage was probably needed. So, here is the first part. There are other posts … More Japanese WW II Camouflage – navy
I You can find a reference to all my Japanese ship camouflage posts at: https//wetherhorn.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/japanese-ship-camouflage-cross-reference/ posted a few days ago about Japanese Naval Camouflage, or lack thereof. In the case of the Japanese Merchant Marine, however, there is a lot of evidence of camouflage patterns. The Japanese high command seems to have not planned realistically … More Japanese Merchant Ship Camouflage
In a previous post I mentioned how women helped with camouflage in World War One. haven’t ever seen any evidence that any woman designed camouflage patterns in that war. But I did run across an item that showed at least one female actually put her artistic abilities to use in the field of ship camouflage. … More A real woman camouflage artist
In the First World War, when everyone was painting their ships in order to confuse German submarine captains who might be targeting them, even the Italians developed some camouflage patterns of their own. This one is the Italian passenger liner “America”. She got her own disguise in 1918 and an American Aide for Information documented … More Italys America
Women only received the right to vote after the First World War. In Britain it came in 1918. In the United States it occurred in 1920.The pressures of war resulted in many places off the battlefield becoming sites where women could contribute to the war effort. Camouflage was one such field. The Royal Navy established … More Women helped with WWI camouflage
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