U.S. Navy Ships in WWII Dazzle Camouflage 1944-1945

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Benson Class

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for DD-421

Design 3D (rev)

for DD-421

Design Number Silhouette Ships Wearing Design
for DD-421
Measure 32
Niblack (DD-424)Harding (DMS-28)
Drawing

This drawing depicts how the drawing for Measure 32 Design 3D (reversed) for the Benson class could have been created by simply flipping the original over and thus reversing port and starboard. The vertical colors of the original were specified to be dull black (BK), ocean gray (5-O) and light gray (5-L) and the horizontal colors were ocean gray (5-O) and deck blue (20-B). Haze gray (5-H) could have been used in place of light gray to be Measure 31. I have found no official instructions or drawings that showed this, but a few ships did carry this version of camouflage.

Original drawing source: NARA 80-G-170950 and 80-G-170951.

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