Camouflage For Individuals
A new system of individual camouflage for soldiers, the invention of an officer of the French Army .Reserve, is stated to have passed a series of tests in the field. It is in principle a modification of the netting which was used for camouflage on a largo scale during the Great War, and consists of a small net made of thin, but tough, whipcord which weighs less than looz. Suitable material, such as vegetation, can be rapidly and easily fixed to this base in order to screen individuals from observation from the air, and it is a simple matter to join the nets together if mass production is needed. The inventor claims that the screen, which takes up little space in a man’s kit, can also be used as a stretcher, a hammock, a shell or ammunition carrier, or if several are tied together, as a rope bridge for crossing small streams.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6864, 21 May 1932, Page 7
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155Camouflage For Individuals Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6864, 21 May 1932, Page 7
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