Monday, June 30, 2025

dazzle camouflaged ship used as advertising space

Above FUNNY BUSINESS cartoon with caption “I think the camouflager sold some advertising space!” by Ralph A. Hershberger, in The Pittsburgh Press, July 23, 1945.

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Raymond A. Tolbert, HOBART MAN WRITES OF OCEAN VOYAGE: Young Attorney Enroute to Front as YMCA Secretary Tells His Experiences, in The Times-Democrat (Altus OK), January 17, 1918—

Yesterday we received quite a thrill when a ship passed us in the distance. I looked at it through a kindly Frenchman’s binoculars but it looked more like a zebra than anything else, it was so camouflaged. The art of the camouflager is quite unique. As we left the harbor. we passed a large number of ships spotted and daubed up in much the same way that a small boy paints a barn.

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