Word: camoufleurs
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Double Trouble. Famed Industrial Designer Raymond Loewy (ink bottles, Studebakers, etc.) turned camoufleur to plan the $2 million "passive protection" of Baltimore's Glenn Martin bomber factory...
...complete scene, this is painted from blueprints on laid-out rolls of mesh. Rolled up, marked for reassembling, the mesh is shipped overseas to hide airdromes, tank farms, gun emplacements. So well has the mesh worked that it is fast replacing spun glass and steel wool camouflage covers. Boasted Camoufleur Kleiser: "A robin built a nest in one of our fake trees in Seattle. It has to be good to fool a robin...
...artillery would melt so unobtrusively into its surroundings that the enemy would be unable to notice it. In this respect front-line camouflage has scarcely changed at all. But the coming of the bomber plane has started something new in rear areas. To meet that danger the modern camoufleur has to think of the necessity not of complete concealment, but of blurring a huge target from the eyes of a modern bomber who must actually see what he hits. The problem is not so impossible of solution as it appeared at first sight...
...instead of erasing the lines of his bomb-threatened factory in a hazy chiaroscuro of paint and props, today's camoufleur makes it look like something else (an innocent farmhouse or a block of houses). He hopes to disguise all nearby landmarks, to give the surrounding terrain an unexpected look. If his elaborate system of obfuscation causes the enemy bombardier to hesitate in the single fleeting moment when accurate aim is possible at 20,000 ft. and 400 miles per hour, the bomber may have to return amid antiaircraft fire for a second try or else go home with...
...service, many a Reserve officer may find himself soldiering under civilian bigwigs who have been long in the Organized Reserves. Examples: David Sarnoff, president of Radio Corp. of America and colonel in the Signal Corps; Camoufleur Homer Schiff Saint Gaudens, lieut. colonel in the Corps of Engineers; Cineman Cecil Blount De Mille, major in the Signal Corps; U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., captain of Cavalry; Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt...