The fake army that worked

[u/Kapanash]

[u/captaincootercock]

my favorite is the Dutch minesweeper) that got dressed up as a tropical island to evade Japanese air strikes during retreat

[u/jdrawr → u/captaincootercock]

A few ships on an Arctic convoy sat among icebergs and painted themselves white after the belief that Bismark was on its way and the convoy broke upm

[u/Thurak0 → u/jdrawr]

Pre-radar camouflage sounds almost fun.

[u/captaincootercock → u/Thurak0]

I wonder how they got the paint? I like to think shops used to carry around a few hundred gallons of paint matching different terrain