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Above British steamship Ascutney (center), showing camouflage, with Corle Castle on the right, 1918.
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Brian Freeland, “Blue Days at Sea” in Ottawa Citizen (Canada). August 10, 1944—
The storm blew over and the rest of our days was spent in chipping paint, at target practice, and applying camouflage to the ship’s boats…Our last job was finishing the new zebra stripe camouflage on the ship’s motor launch. The stripes are so applied that it is difficult to tell whether one has three boats approaching, whether two are going in opposite directions, or what you will. Our last naval act was to lower her tenderly into the sea, and beam with pride as, like Stephen Leacock’s Ronald, she rode madly off in all directions.
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