Dazzle Camouflage: What is it and how did it work?
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Thursday, October 5, 2023
WWI checkerboard pattern used for object disruption
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Above A vintage postcard (we’ve blogged about it before) of a checkerboard-patterned fortress, called Spitbank Fort, built in 1859, near Portsmouth, England. We were inevitably reminded of it when we saw a comparable application of checkerboard camouflage on WWI artillery, shown below. 
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