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...came is still a deep defense secret. But outspoken army camoufleurs turn thumbs down on dazzle. Their problem, they feel, is harder than outsmarting a periscope running ten to twelve feet above heaving wave-levels. They have to conceal parked tanks, trucks, grounded planes, big guns from modern aerial camera-eyes which can even pick out the curl of withered camouflage leaves from 3,000 feet...
...only experimental camouflage laboratory, camoufleurs study how to outwit stereopticon, infrared and color photography from airplanes, try to solve such apparently insoluble problems as what to do when tanks are concealed in deep shadow and the sun goes behind a cloud; how to camouflage a truck, when an aerial camera can pick up a tireprint on the grass "almost from the stratosphere." They also experiment with dazzle v. solid color camouflage...
...Germans), bristling with machine guns and connected by deep trenches with the main fortifications behind. The machine guns were so placed that every foot of passable terrain was swept by two or more death-spitting muzzles. First task of the French was to feel out these defenses by aerial photography and by scouting parties on foot and horseback, debouching from the Maginot Line...
...worry of all broadcasters is how to make strategists, commentators, etc. earn their keep. One way (already registered at the U. S. copyright office) was suggested last week by Manhattan Press-agent Joseph P. Annin, a Wartime aerial reconnaissance officer. Annin's idea, which he got while traveling cross-country in an airliner, is to sell radio advertisers on the idea of distributing war maps and sets of colored pins to the audience, hiring military experts to digest the news of the day, analyze the tactics, then devoting five sponsored minutes each evening on the air telling...
Straightforward military technological improvement has proceeded apace in some fields, especially the speed and versatility of tanks, the accuracy of aerial bombing, the range and speed of airplanes. Yet the most effective innovation of the Spanish civil war was a crude anti-tank weapon- bottles of gasoline wrapped in burning rags which were hurled at Insurgent tanks by Loyalist infantry. And the record for long-distance artillery fire is still held by the monster guns with which, during World War I, the Germans shelled Paris from a wood 70-odd miles away...