Other Post An exotic and different camouflage

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I share with you some pictures of aircraft applied with camouflage called Barclay. A question, does this camouflage was used operationally or only a test?

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McClelland Barclay (1891–1943) was a leading American illustrator. By the age of 21, Barclay's work had been published in The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, and Cosmopolitan. He later became a Lieutenant in the Naval Reserve in 1938. By 1943, he was a Lt. Commander.

In June 1938, he was appointed Assistant Naval Constructor with the US Naval Reserve. In mid-1940, Barclay prepared experimental camouflage designs for Navy combat aircraft, but evaluation tests revealed that pattern camouflage was of little use for aircraft. Within weeks of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Barclay completed the first of many recruiting posters for the Navy.
 

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