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Camouflage: Basic Principles [FM 5-20]
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Item Number: L0019
Camouflage: Basic Principles
Field Manual FM 5-20
This manual covers general camouflage principles. Camouflage uses concealment and deception to promote offensive action, to surprise, to mislead the enemy, and to prevent him from inflicting damage.
Concealment includes hiding from view, making hard to see clearly, arranging obstructions to vision, deceiving and disguising, and deception involving sound.
Coverage includes how to know what to conceal, how to conceal it, the types of materials and equipment to be used for concealment and how simple reduction of visual clues can be an effective means of camouflage.
This was the manual used to begin instruction on camouflaging all types of Army ground installations, positions, equipment, weapons, aircraft, airfields, vehicles, and personnel.
Originally published in February 1944 by the War Department, Washington, D.C.
- Summary
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1: General
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2: The Problem of Concealment
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3: Principles of Camouflage
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4: Hiding and Blending
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Use of Natural Materials
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Use of Artificial Materials
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Drapes, Flat-tops, Screens
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Reduction of Tone Contrasts
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Disruption of Form
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5: Deceiving
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6: Geographic and Climatic Factors Affecting Camouflage
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Temperate Zone
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Desert
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Jungle
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Snow
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86 pages
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112 B&W photos and illustrations
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16 color photos and illustrations
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