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| NEW! WWI & WWII - STRANGE RAZZLE DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE PAINT |
Posted Fri January 30, 2015
What Is Dazzle?
The father of camouflage, Abbott Thayer described animal coloration as a way to conceal or disrupt an object. Dazzle is disruptive (think of a zebra). French artists developed military camouflage in World War I. Ships were hard to camouflage against U-boats because the sea and sky were always changing and of the smoke they produced. Norman Wilkinson, a marine painter who was in the Royal Navy, is credited with being the first to develop dazzle camouflage for ships. The Royal Navy allowed him to test his idea. When the test went well Wilkinson was told to proceed, however, he was given no office space. So he went to his alma mater the Royal Academy and was given a classroom. Wilkinson hired Vorticist Edward Wadsworth to be a port officer in Liverpool, England and oversee the painting of dazzle ships. In 1918, Wilkinson came to United States to share his dazzle plans. 1,000 plans were developed through this partnership.
Did it work? Dazzle and the convoy system were implemented about the same time, so it is hard to say. However, crews on dazzle ships were very proud of the bedazzled camouflage. It was definitely a morale booster. The British and the Americans fully adopted dazzle because at the time they found it to be effective and inexpensive.
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| STRANGE OLDE SUPER BOWL HALF TIME SHOWS AND CELEBRITIES - VARIOUS OTHER OLDE SPORTS TEAMS |
Posted Thu January 29, 2015
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| NEW! - WORLD WAR 1 - BRITISH ARMY RECRUITING & INFO POSTERS |
Posted Thu January 29, 2015
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| STRANGE ANIMALS IN OLDE TRAVELING CIRCUS & VAUDEVILLE SHOWS - ELEPHANTS, LIONS AND HORSES! |
Posted Thu January 29, 2015
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