
Us Navy Ship With Dazzle Camouflage, Wwi

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Us Navy Ship With Dazzle Camouflage, Wwi
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USS Nebraska with dazzle camouflage, US Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia. April 20th, 1918. Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle or dazzle painting, was a family of ship camouflage used extensively in World War I and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it consisted of complex patterns of geometric shapes in contrasting colors, interrupting and intersecting each other. Unlike some other forms of camouflage, dazzle works not by offering concealment but by making it difficult to estimate a target's range, speed and heading.
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