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Description: | Concept: military personnel, education, camouflage, military vehicles Description: whole: the 19 images occupy the majority, with the title separate and positioned across the top edge, in white, held within a green inset. The main text is separate and placed over the majority, in black and in green. Further text is separate and located across the top edge and the bottom edge, in white, held within green insets. All set against a white background. image: 19 separate images illustrating both good and bad practice in the use of camouflage. text: M.T. CONCEALMENT - How to Confuse the Enemy... This man is not deceiving the ENEMY, he is deceiving HIMSELF - his net is insufficiently garnished and so will conceal NOTHING. It should be tied firmly down to prevent flogging in the wind - anyway, a garnished net will no hide a vehicle ON THE MOVE Vehicle nets should be garnished like this USE OF THE NET - A vehicle seems a big thing to hide in the open - even with a correctly garnished net. If the net is just hung like this... The vehicle will still look like a VEHICLE - viewed from the air... Always keep the curtains at the back of your vehicle CLOSED. GARNISHING OF VEHICLE NETS Flat Garnish Detail. Knot Garnish Detail. Garnished area to be irregular in shape - The four colours of hessian to be well mixed. LEFT flat garnish pattern. Cut strips to approx. 6 ft. lengths, thread under and over each mesh and knot firmly at each end. Do not garnish diagonally, and keep strips pointing outwards at the edge. RIGHT Knot garnish pattern. Cut strips to 9 inch lengths. Thin out towards the edge. 24' x 24' net. Flat Garnish pattern. - 5 rolls garnish. 14' x 14' net. Knotted Garnish. - 21/2 rolls garnish. Tie a cord to each corner so that a stone can be attached - to help sling the net up on a tree. Parking IN THE OPEN, Cut saplings or branches with twiggy ends to prop the net away from the vehicle so that its shape is BROKEN AND CONFUSED and its shadow irregular and blurred when viewed from the air... The air observer may see something - but it won't look like a vehicle! Parking UNDER TREES, An air observer can see through thin foliage and winter trees - so hang your net above the vehicle to act as an overhead cover. Under a tree with heavy foliage, hang your net up as a screen to break up your shadow. Cover the dark hole underneath with brushwood, foliage or rubbish. There is always a pattern on the ground - FIT INTO IT When parking in an agricultural area - fit into the REGULAR pattern of the field boundaries. DONT[sic] DO THIS When parking in scrub and rough ground, fir into the IRREGULAR pattern. DONT[sic] DO THIS Parking ON A ROAD. Watch your shadow - lose it in a shadow that is ALREADY THERE but remember - after dinner, shadows will have MOVED... Better hide AGAINST a hedge than behind one unless its shadow covers your roof. Wrong - shadow across the road. Right - shadow into hedge. Remember - your vehicle is one of many, so see that the other chap does this too. There are 101 other ways of confusing the enemy which you can think out for yourself. J.G. THE CAMOUFLAGE DEVELOPMENT AND TRAINING CENTRE, R.E. MARCH 1941. The net is NOT a cloak of INVISIBILITY! (F.288). Wt. 47931 1000 Gp. 961. FOSH AND CROSS LTD. (F.326). (F.472). (F.949). Object: camouflage net, truck, house | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: J G Printer: Fosh and Cross Ltd, London Publisher/Sponsor: Camouflage Development and Training Centre, Royal Engineers | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5229... | Go to resource |
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