World War I dazzle camouflage was fantastically weird -

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jkag89
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and surprisingly smart
Rongagin71
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AG
That was good.
Probably camouflage has been used throughout history, but the British were the first to use black clad skirmishers (shown starting about 1:30 in the attached video).
SRBS
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Those are the 95th rifles. Wearing dark green.
That's a clip from one of the Sharpe's films.
All good but the books are tremendous.
(In one of the films you get to see the boobs of a young Elizabeth Hurley!!!)
CanyonAg77
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Which film?

Purely for the historical angle, of course.
JABQ04
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CanyonAg77 said:

Which film?

Purely for the historical angle, of course.


Yeah. That info needs to be shared
JABQ04
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SRBS said:

Those are the 95th rifles. Wearing dark green.
That's a clip from one of the Sharpe's films.
All good but the books are tremendous.
(In one of the films you get to see the boobs of a young Elizabeth Hurley!!!)


Great book series. Discovers them in HS. Read them all out of order but didn't care. The shows are meh, imho but worth a watch. There's a pretty neat FB group I follow of 95th reenactors over in England.

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Also used to a limited extent by the Germans in WWII, as with the ill fated MV Goya (pictured below).

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BQ78
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That crazy camouflage doesn't work at the range depicted in the pictures but put them out on the horizon at 7+ miles and it does.

I remember watching a PBS show on camouflage a few years ago and it is crazy how some of this works on the human eye. They stuck two armored vehicles out in the desert on the horizon in the day time and you could see them. Then they both turned on high intensity lights pointed in the direction of the camera and they disappeared--crazy.
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When I was teaching, we had a author visit, Chris Barton hecame and talked about his book "Dazzle Ships: World War I and the Art of Confusion" it was an interesting book and I would recommend it if you want to get your kids reading about history.
SRBS
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The Sharpe's episode with Liz Hurley is Sharpe's Enemy
She's an ex-prostitute, ex-lover of Sharpe who's married up.
Sharpe nails it again of course
You can probably see it on You tube.

The books are awesome. the films don't compare but are well cast and great fun
JABQ04
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Sapper Redux
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YokelRidesAgain said:

Also used to a limited extent by the Germans in WWII, as with the ill fated MV Goya (pictured below).

Didn't work.




Naming something that looks like that the "Goya" just works.
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