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SUBTLE ART OF CAMOUFLAGECAMOUFLAGE plays an important port in war—for ships, planes, tanks, buildings, snipers, and even for men woiting to set fire to tanks. Here is the army beauty parlour, the design being for use against thebackground of a bombed building.PUZZLE PICTURE: CAN YOU PICK THE SNIPER?GLOVES AND COVER for the face help to make the rifleman hard todistinguish even as he lies in the open ogainst o low stump.HORRIBLY SIN-ISTER FIGUREof a sniperhidden underfine meshednetting.TWO OBSERVERS, one in ordinary uniform, the other in camouflaged clothes. View the photograph from a yard distance, and the value of the camouflage becomes obvious.The face is one of the first betrayersLEAVES ARE SCATTERED over the observer's feet, glovescover his honds, and in oction his face would be covered. Faces ore readily visible even when the rest of the body cannot be distinguishedJuly26,AUSTRALASIAN,
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Melbourne Australasian
Melbourne, Victoria, AU
Sat, Jul 26, 1941
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