This is what the drawing for Design 32/5D for the light cruiser USS Phoenix (CL-46) may have looked like possibly dated September 1943. This drawing shows the dark color (navy blue) feathering into the light color (haze gray.) Phoenix appeared in this camouflage in late September 1943.
The earliest drawing for Design 5D was attached to the March 1943 Supplement to SHIPS-2 for the Porter Class destroyers using Measure 32 colors and sprayed edges. Sometime in 1943 the cruiser USS Phoenix (CL-46) painted in Design 5D, possibly based on this drawing. Then Design 5D was drawn for the Barnegat class of small seaplane tenders again using Measure 32 with sprayed edges. However, there may have been an additional drawing for the Barnegat class using solid edges because at least five of the class painted 5D with solid panels instead of sprayed and feathered edges
Original drawing source: NARA 80-G-000000.
