WW2 Yehudi aircraft camouflage - photo

[Altair]

A Grumman TBM-3D Avenger with Yehudi lights, a type of active camouflage using counter-illumination.

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Previously:

WW2 Finnish camouflaged road - photo
Dazzle ship camouflage - photos
Vietnamese Cu Chi tunnels - large diagram and photos

[mlochala]

That must be all the little pods along the leading edge of the wing and around the engine cowl.

Reminds me of "If you can't bluff them with bulls..t, then dazzle them with brilliance." I guess that's how the old saying goes.

[Toolmaker51]

Entirely new to me; talk about hiding in plain sight....https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehudi_lights