Tuesday, May 27, 2025

aha / painting cheese on the moon in a lunar eclipse

Above US Government photograph of American artist (and wartime camoufleur) Charles Bittinger painting an eclipse of the moon on site, as it happens.

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Anon, The Avalanche Echo (Glenwood Springs CO), February 27, 1919—

Camouflager Charley DeWitt , son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank DeWitt, is home accompanied by his wife. He was in service at the front as a camouflager and saw active service for two months. He is a pretty good boy to get acquainted with for he has learned a trick or two about painting cheese on the moon to make the Germans look that way while other khaki boys stole towards Berlin.

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