Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-23

The accommodating party crossed the clear
ng when without warning bullets them seemingly
from nowhere Four OF the Jap did find out what
hit them But survivors were amazed TO see
smoke curl from the mating of they had taken
for genuine.
They looked only long enough TO see what seemed r.
be cumps of greenery sunlight up and shoot Then
laps Tied creatures who looked so much like
tropical vegetation the camouage corps of
The United States Army copied the that gave
the wildcats of New Guinea
The idea of dressing warriors in colors that merged
with greenery is old at Robin Hood and his
men "ho as every youngster who will remember
were dressed in forest green children Young and old
who love the legend Robin Hood think that the green
he and his men wore was choice dictated only,
by liking for that color beauty was really camoI
iage For II will be remembered that the Kings sherfs
Were on the hunt for Robin band and the outlaws
wore what would blend with the green Sherwood Forest
Man in turn learned camouflage from animal and
insect world He has copied designs models all the
way from the humble green caterpillar cabbage leaf
who is partly protected by from birds and others
on the hunt him TO the Bengal tiger whose coat oi
taes so tcry the stripes blazing sun and shadow Of
high grasses spccked costume of the sinners who
rose mp from the underground in New Guinea was copy
OF the eoPafdS skin as the photograph page shows
Few people realize how many animals wear camou
fage and how many models they have furnished man
thereby The owly and ltte-loved skunk for example
has white topped coat which people think nature
put there for beauty That because they see him from
above. from below as many of the slunls enemies
see IT, To them the white his blends with the white
of the sky and makes him less visible.
You have seen mans copy Of that color trick in the
"tcSheeted coats Of soldiers on winter fronts
from the ski troops of Firms Russians and Germans TO
our own troops being trained for warfare Alaska
We think of the anters deer and moose as pri-
marty fighting weapons Weapons they are but i'm more
la one sense of the word When deer stands motion
less IN tangle OF forest mountainside the wildcat
and IT'S cousins who like venison often mistake those
branching antlers for the branches o a tree
Man in turn paints tanges of tree branches on ctv
buildings he wants 10 camoufage and on nets over gun
military installations OR conrves mats Of brancbos
OF grass for his personal protection by means Of can,
flt or ON tho J,t...
about the way he looks 20 the predatory bird above him
"a soldier in modern warfare worries about what no
looks Like to the enemy flor
Nazi fer accommodating over an advanced American
position level stretch grcensvard too snarscI,,
ovcrgrown 20 hide snper 10 would SEEM He signaIed ~
ffoand troops that u S1fe 70 send advance natrs
against the Yankees.
Naz patrol did advance and at first saw nothing
but level greener Suddenly there was voev Of frin9
that seemed to come from underground patrol was
wiped out,
From the Nazis plane what looked like level ground
was IN many places actually square Of soping screen
C 1870. Dos American Weekly Inc