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‘Muroc Maru’, 28 August 1944, Rogers Dry Lake, Southern California. A 200 meters wooden replica of a Japanese Atago-class heavy cruiser (dubbed the Muroc Maru) was constructed during 1943 on this lakebed for skip-bombing practice. The bright Sand dunes, under certain conditions, created the illusion of water. [Edwards Air Force Base History Office]

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RAF Barrage Balloons with WAAF Operating Crews. c.1940

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Étienne-Jules Marey, Georges Demenÿ in a black suit with a white stripe down side, 1884.

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Pigeons Bred with Camouflage, 1941 Camouflaged pigeons, with a mottled plumage to make them almost invisible to the enemy, were bred in Ontario, during WWII, by Ray R. Delhauer, a retired officer. Believing that pigeons were too vulnerable because bright patches of white or colored feathers made them an easy target, Delhauer bred and crossbred his birds until he achieved a strain with mottled gray and dusty white feathers on their under-bodies as well as on their wings and backs. (Popular Science, Jan, 194, p. 81)

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Edith Burchett, London, c. 1920.

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May 1956: A tattoo artist paints a permanent beauty spot onto the cheek of a female client at his workshop in Copenhagen. (Photo by John Firth)

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Maude Wagner, circus performer and female tattoo artist, Los Angeles, 1907.

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Postcard of Ben Abu Bekier, Tattooed “Indian Fakir.” Germany, ca. 1910s.

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Cow being painted with white stripes to increase visibility during wartime blackouts (England, 1940s).

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Fake Pre, WWII and after swiss houses. Painting detail of a swiss concrete bunker disguised as mountain chalet. Each of these bunkers was covered with a customised skin inspired by…

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