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Photo #: 80-G-166244

Camouflage Measure 31, Design 11D


Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for destroyers of the DD-409 class. It "may also be adapted to DD 380, 381, 386 & 397 classes".
This plan, approved by Captain Logan McKee, USN, is dated 1 March 1944. It shows the ship's starboard side, superstructure ends and exposed decks.
Ships known or reported to have worn this camouflage design, or an adapted version of it, include Ellet (DD-398), McCall (DD-400), Stack (DD-406), Sterett (DD-407), Wilson (DD-408) and Hughes (DD-410).

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

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Image posted 10 October 2005