US ARMY, camouflage, Germany, early 70'es (pre-MERDC)

Lasse,

The paint they used had a gloss or semi-gloss sheen to it, and was not from the later MERDC "lustreless enamel" that also came with a radar-scattering element contained in its pigment. It was closed to the old "Sand" with that pinkish tint which made most of us think it came out of leftover stocks from the 1950s.

Cookie Sewell

Now, that of course is something that can be very difficult to tell from photographs, but with the pictures I've seen, taken in various light conditions, I would have presumed that a gloss or even semigloss finish would show light reflections of some kind, for example:

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or

Of course it only takes a thin layer of dust to make anything appear flat, which is how I had perceived every image so far. But still, I find your information very hard to believe!

Don't you mean IR-scattering?

Again, I don't see much pink in the Sand color of the above linked pictures. That doesn't mean it isn't there, of course. Your eyes have seen the real thing, mine haven't.

Do you know whether there are any museums or displays in Germany displaying US Army vehicles in this camouflage scheme? I doubt there can be any other way of verifying this, short of finding the original order defining the camouflage?

BTW, look at the 82nd AB Gama Goat at this link:

Is this a case of MERDC with exaggerated Sand patches, or another instance of the camouflage we are discussing?

-Lasse

I forgot to refer to the particular picture I was talking about; it's the second picture, "82ABN 1F320 C13". The picture below, "C14" makes me say "hmmm?" And the last picture is of course a clear case.

-Lasse