Frog skin ( Frog Skin ) is a camouflage color for field uniforms of the US Army [1] with spots and a deforming color, which allows it to mix with the environment [2] .
Content
- 1 M1942 Frog Skin
- 2 Post-war application
- 3 Similar camouflage colors
- 4 Gallery
- 5 See also
- 6 notes
- 7 References
M1942 Frog Skin
Camouflage (called Duck Hunter) was created by gardener and editor of Sunset, Better House and Gardens and San Francisco Chronicle Norvell Gillespie. [3]
The M1942 Frog Skin was the first United States military experience with the introduction of a warp mask with a deforming masking pattern. [1] Before the war, in 1940, the US Army Corps of Engineers began developing camouflage for the armed forces. The development process had to be accelerated after General MacArthur requested 150,000 camouflage kits for action in the jungle for the Marine Corps in July 1942 . The M1942 camouflage obtained on the basis of Duck Hunter was on the one hand a five-color spotted pattern on a green background [4] on the other, and a three-color “beach” color against a dark background. [1] [5] [6]
Post-War Application
The United States sold the Frog Skin outfit kits to France, which transferred it to the 1st and 2nd Parachute Regiment of the Foreign Legion , which then participated in the Indochina War [7] . In 1961, a 2506 Brigade of Cuban émigrés was equipped with the CIA uniforms in the frog skin coloring before the invasion of Pig Bay [7] . During the Vietnam War, United States special forces supplied “frog skin” as part of Operation Montagnard to the Thyong people who fought against the Communist partisans [7] .
Similar camouflage colors
Over the years, Frog Skin-like spotted camouflage colors have been developed in many countries around the world. The German Flecktarn camouflage is a multi-colored (from 3 to 6 colors) [8] spotted pattern that creates a smoothing effect, eliminating hard color borders. The Australian five-color Disruptive Pattern Camouflage Uniform , based in turn on the American American jungle camouflage patterns [8] , but using a different color palette.
Gallery
US Marine Corps Raiders in M1942 Camouflage, 1944.
An American soldier in uniform with a picture of M1942 Frog Skin [6] , Normandy, July 1944.
American adviser and degara soldiers in camouflage Frog skin, Vietnam, 1964.
An American adviser in camouflage uniform with a pattern M1942, Vietnam, 1964.
Foreign Legion paratroopers in Frog skin.
See also
- Flora (camouflage)
- List of military camouflage patterns
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 'FROGSKIN' PATTERN . Eastman Leather Clothing Blog . Date of treatment December 2, 2018. Archived on July 14, 2014.
- ↑ Exploratorium: Frogs Disappearing Act (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment November 14, 2018. Archived July 14, 2014.
- ↑ USA - Camopedia . camopedia.org. Date of treatment December 2, 2018.
- ↑ Kamouflage.net: US Jungle Camouflage
- ↑ US WW2 Camoflage Uniforms . Date of treatment December 2, 2018. Archived on November 26, 2014.
- ↑ 1 2 The Complex Guide to Camo
- ↑ 1 2 3 A Short History of Camouflage . Toronto Standard Media Company Limited . Date of treatment December 2, 2018.
- ↑ 1 2 German camouflage Flecktarn . forma-odezhda.ru. Date of treatment December 2, 2018.