Engineers and camoflage

[sapper740]

Here are three more shots detailing extent that they went to in the desert to hide high value targets by making them appear as something else. Note how they even made them look like they had dirty windshields that had been swept by windshield wipers.

Chimo! Derek.

[Rob Beale]

How were the nets held up over vehicles?

I have seen modern hoops in pairs on telescopic poles and plastic frisbee like disks to go on poles, but nothing to describe how WW2 nets were held up. Did they use forked sticks? or was there a special piece of kit?

I have seen a scheme where 7 or so wooden poles of unequal length were threaded on a rope and tied to a truck, and then erected to raise the net clear of the vehicle to disguise its outline, BUT no detail of the top ends of the poles.

Rob

[maple_leaf_eh]

In the late 80's I saw a Chev Suburban 4x4 that had a simple tube steel roof rack and what looked like a cut-down 5/4 ton truck tarp. It would have been in Kingston and later at RV89 in Wainwright. The Div Comd needed all the doors and seats in his rover(s), but if need be the driver could camouflage the old man's vehicle to look like the roofline of an ordinary cargo truck.