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2. World War II US Navy dazzle camouflage measures 31, 32 and 33 ...

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   Each ship's dazzle pattern was unique to make it more difficult for the enemy to recognize different classes of ships. The result was that a profusion of dazzle schemes were tried, and the evidence for their success was at best mixed. Dazzle camouflage patterns used on cruisers are presented here. Patterns designed for cruisers were suffixed ...

3. Dazzle camouflage - Wikipedia

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   Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a type of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards.

4. World War II ship camouflage measures of the United States ...

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   Cruiser Measure 6 made a Brooklyn or St. Louis-class cruisers resemble a New Orleans-class cruiser, [6] by painting a New Orleans silhouette on both sides: Light Gray on a Measure 1 ship, or Dark Gray on a Measure 2 or 3 ship. [a] Measure 7: Similar to Measure 6, Cruiser Measure 7 made an Omaha-class cruiser resemble a Clemson-class destroyer ...

5. Ship camouflage - Wikipedia

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   HMT Aquitania wearing dazzle camouflage. Patterned ship camouflage was pioneered in Britain. Early in the First World War, the zoologist John Graham Kerr advised Winston Churchill to use disruptive camouflage to break up ships' outlines, and countershading to make them appear less solid, [14] following the American artist Abbott Handerson Thayer's beliefs.

6. USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) - Wikipedia

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   In August 2021, the University of Utah football team announced they would use grey uniforms during their 20 November 2021 game against Oregon to pay tribute to the Salt Lake City including "dazzle-camo accents" on the shoulders and sides of the pants and a single battle star on the right shoulder — 11 altogether when the team is on the field ...

7. USS Astoria (CA-34) - Wikipedia

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   The second USS Astoria (CL/CA-34) was a New Orleans-class cruiser of the United States Navy that participated in both the Battle of the Coral Sea and the Battle of Midway, but was then sunk in August 1942, at the Battle of Savo Island.