Monday, July 21, 2025

faint traces of magic paint / grim yet also picturesque

camouflaged WWI truck, damaged
IT’S AS CHILLY IN GERMANY AS IT IS ANYWHERE ELSE THESE DAYS in Stars and Stripes, January 31, 1919, p. 8—

There is a certain grim picturesqueness about camouflage these days. When a truck appears in the streets of Coblenz [Koblenz] still bearing upon it traces of the magic paint of other days, it focuses the German eye almost as quickly as does an American band or a column of rubber-booted doughboys. It seems such a relic of the past—a stately Spanish carnival among modern battleships, a golden piece of eight among a lot of silver American half dollars.

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