Tracy White wrote:
Camouflage
Common Wisdom has been that the battleships at Pearl Harbor were in mostly Measure 2,
Actually that would be Measure 1 not Measure 2 but no biggie as it turns out a few wore Measure 2 modified.
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Ron Smith of
AA Military Research has uncovered primary, textual documents that strongly suggests she was in a modified Measure 1 using 5-S. You will hear more about this from Ron.
As soon as Tim resets my FTP I'll be sending him a piece on 1941 camouflage with some photos. Be prepared to actually read from beginning to end and for a few shocks. I will caution people not to argue on screen colors, especially those of the S&S paint chips, they look right on *my* system but by the time they get to your system can look wildly different depending on your system settings and hardware. In fact the JPEG's look slightly different from the TIFF and RAW formats on my system.
I will not post it on Steelnavy because of the attitudes and complete lack of moderation over there, I will also strongly object if anyone links it to Steelnavy. The full scope of the material will be published sometime this year with full cites, consider this a preview and remember it is legally copyrighted.
Also remember there is a lot of overlapping research by a number of people. We have mutually agreed not to steal each other's thunder and that nothing would be released until today, December 7th, 2006. I know the answers to a lot of things but since somebody else found them I will refer to them so be patient. Don Preul is currently in Hawaii for the ceremonies so he may take a little while to add what he's found.
Don Montgomery initially found the color films over 20 years ago. Steve Wiper did some research a few years ago and assisted from Tucson by providing some record numbers for further work this year and a good bit of advice. Don Preul of course built the new model for the Memorial, found some oral and written documents and was there to help me sort through some of my finds. Norman Freidman was at the table next to us the first day when Don and I discovered that I had found the motherlode of 1941 camouflage records with items in color and paint chips that have never been found before and the fate of Arizona's 1941 records; camouflage isn't Norman's "thing" but he was quite impressed with what I found. Mike Wenger and Danny Martinez were also active this fall in the hunt for information at NARA. The staffs of the Still Photos, Motion Pictures and Textual research rooms at NARA were of great assistance and many times bent over backwards to helps us ferret out the records.
What I will be sending Tim later today is literally just the tip of the iceberg and represents a condensation of maybe 2% of the records to go through for WWII USN camouflage.
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), but anyone who thinks with their gut isn't thinking at all...I'm still trying to catch up on some of the threads going on around the interweb, but I'm becoming firmly convinced.
