Posted by Bob Read on January 30, 1999 at 16:06:52 in 206.100.37.149:
In Reply to: Re: Imperial War Museum posted by Russell Wild UK on January 30, 1999 at 13:19:14:
Russell:
I think for this research project you aren't talking about money so much as time. If the camouflage was done like it was done in America during WWII, the U.S. Navy had a number of camouflage "measures" or patterns if you will. Certain measures were assigned to certain ships for certain durations.
A destroyer may have been assigned Measure 22 camouflage plan between May of 1943 and April of 1945. If the British handled the camouflage this way with a systematic plan, you could see what different "measures" were used and see which was assigned to the Olympic and when. She had more than one pattern during the war. I don't think large scale plans will need to be copied. I would imagine most of the information about camouflage patterns would be on standard size paper which could be photocopied. Another possibility is that at one of the major libraries in Great Britain someone may have written a book about this very subject. You could search something like "dazzle camouflage schemes used during WWI" as a subject search. You might just find all the information in one neat tidy package. I don't know if your major libraries have online search capability but if nothing else you could check in person the next time you get to London.
Regards,
Bob Read
: I really can't think of anywhere else. Plans from th Admiralty, if they exist, would cost a fortune I'd bet. Maybe I could try contacting the various maritime museums to see if they have any idea.
: Russ :-)