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Photo #: 80-G-170025

Camouflage Measure 33, Design 10A


Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for aircraft carriers of the CV-9 (Essex) class.
This plan, approved by Captain Logan McKee, USN, is dated 19 January 1944. It shows the ship's starboard and port sides, stern and superstructure ends.
USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Ticonderoga (CV-14), USS Wasp (CV-18) and USS Shangri-La (CV-38) were painted in this camouflage design.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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Image posted 7 November 2005