Photo #: NH 79363
USS Gem (SP-41)
Relatively fine-screen halftone reproduction of a photograph
taken during World War I, while she was painted in a camouflage
scheme devised by the Submarine Defense Association.
Figure 30 of "The Science of Low Visibility and Deception
as an Aid to the Defense of Vessels Against Attack by Submarines",
by Lindell T. Bates, 1918. In 1974 the original volume was in
Record Group 45 at the U.S. National Archives.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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