The Easter Egg Fleet American Ship Camouflage In Wwi

Author : Aryeh Wetherhorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789659274703
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Easter Egg Fleet: American Ship Camouflage in WWI written by Aryeh Wetherhorn and published by . This book was released on 2020-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Easter Egg Fleet American Ship Camouflage in WWI A description and reference of how the United States used artists to design ship camouflage to help foil German U-boats in The First World War. Includes background to the war, how submarines worked (then), measures to combat them, types of camouflage, who designed the patterns and how they were applied. Reference section includes colored drawings of camouflage patterns known to have been used, what ships carried which designs, and what colors were used. There is a cross index listing for ships and the patterns they carried.

Author : James H. Bruns
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476687633
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Razzle Dazzle written by James H. Bruns and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, American merchant ships were given oddly colored paint jobs to distort their profiles at sea. Dubbed "Razzle-Dazzle," these camouflage patterns were believed responsible for dramatic decreases in Allied shipping losses. This book examines the real (and more compelling) factors that made a difference in the survivability of merchant shipping: the various measures taken principally by the U.S. Navy, including the use of convoys and destroyer escorts, along with some innovative naval technologies. At the same time, advances in America's shipbuilding industry and the development of the nation's first major on-the-job training program enabled mass production of merchant ships at a record pace.

Author : David L. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Naval Camouflage 1914-1945 written by David L. Williams and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it is a subject of immense importance to warship enthusiasts, modelmakers, photograph collectors, and indeed academic naval historians, there has never been an authoritative history of camouflage. Apart from the huge scale of the subject, the reason for this lies largely in the fragmented nature of the surviving evidence, and the ad hoc nature of much wartime development. This book does not claim to be such a narrative history, but it does set out to provide a comprehensive study. Visual and illustrative in its approach, it is Anglo-American in emphasis, but the camouflage patterns of enemy navies (and selected neutrals) are covered as well.

Author : Al Adcock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897475716
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book U.S. Navy Ships Camouflage WWII written by Al Adcock and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roy R. Behrens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971324473
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ship Shape, a Dazzle Camouflage Sourcebook written by Roy R. Behrens and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of twenty-seven World War I-era essays, by various authors, on ship camouflage from that time period. It focuses primarily on American and British camouflage, and especially on "dazzle camouflage," a counter-intuitive method in which brightly colored abstract shapes were applied to the ship's surface. The purpose of such camouflage was not low visibility, but to make it difficult to aim a torpedo at a distant, moving ship from a submerged submarine (U-boat), while peering through a periscope. The book includes 275 drawings, diagrams and vintage photographs, and a 40-page camouflage bibiliography, the largest ever.

Author : Roy R. Behrens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camoupedia written by Roy R. Behrens and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedic sourcebook for camouflage enthusiasts in all research areas who want to explore the history and development of camouflage (artistic, biological and military) since the 19th century. Richly illustrated with historic photographs, diagrams and drawings. Includes subject timeline, bibliography and index.

Author : Kenneth E. Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War Against Germany and Italy written by Kenneth E. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph Knefler Taussig
Publisher : Via Folios
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Queenstown Patrol, 1917 written by Joseph Knefler Taussig and published by Via Folios. This book was released on 1996 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword-- "Published here is the diary that Taussig kept during his time in command of the first U.S. destroyers to arrive in the war zone in 1917. The entries, letters, and reports reveal U.S. and Allied naval personnel grappling with the issues of technological, tactical, and doctrinal innovation; the difficulties of the Navy's early experiences in combined command, control, communication, and coordination; the sometimes awkward matching of operational means with strategic ends; the troubles in mastering both shallow-water and open-ocean antisubmarine warfare; and even the distressing consequences of friendly fire. Most importantly, we find the earliest glimpses of American naval participation in modern coalition warfare."

Author : United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Construction and Repair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Type Designs for Ship Camouflage, Issued by the United States Navy Department, Bureau of Construction and Repair written by United States. Navy Department. Bureau of Construction and Repair and published by . This book was released on 1917* with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Malcolm George Wright
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781848322530
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WW II written by Malcolm George Wright and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters. In this new book by maritime artist Mal Wright both the official and unofficial paint schemes that adorned ships of the Royal Navy and Commonwealth are depicted in detail, along with discussion on changes of armament and electronics that effected the outward appearance of each ship. Starting with destroyers from WW1 still in service during WW2, the book progressively covers ships below cruisers, class by class, to provide a detailed and easy-to use guide to paint schemes in use. In some cases individual ships are shown in the several schemes they wore thus providing a source that covers various periods of service. With 740 full color illustrations, all of named vessels, this book concentrates information into a single volume to provide a one-stop reference source, and, for the first time in a single volume, it covers not just the well-known ships, but also escort vessels, minesweepers, trawlers, coastal craft and auxiliaries in sequential format. Many schemes would be difficult for the reader to have found other than with the most intensive research so that historians, collectors, model makers and war gamers will find this unique reference source absolutely invaluable.