The Japanese actually expected to face Cruisers and Battleships, the large Fleet Carriers like Yorktown and Essex-class CVs, so they had Armor Piercing shells loaded. Things were easily mistaken.ĭuring the British pursuit of Bismarck, Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen was mistaken for Battleship Bismarck.Īs part of the overall, larger Battle of Leyte Gulf in late 1944, Kurita's Center Force entered Samar and were engaged with the aircraft and the Destroyers, Destroyer Escorts of Taffy 3. True breaking down the lines of a ship should make it harder to target certain parts 👍 That British Pacific Fleet scheme is pretty slick against surface level observation. King George V in the foreground, then Missouri, and an Essex-class CV. RC models with 2 of Richelieu's paint schemes from WWII. She sported a paint scheme specific to RN ships in the theater. Over in this post of mine below, I talked about Battleship Richelieu's paint jobs for WWII, including an interesting scheme when she was sailing with the British Pacific Fleet towards the end of the war. New Jersey with Nagato in Tokyo Bay, December 1945. By 1945, of the 10 Fast BBs of the USN, 9 of them were using this paint scheme. If aerial observation was not going to be as real a threat and surface action or observation from ashore was more likely, this measure was possible. Iowa-class BB New Jersey had the nickname "Black Dragon" because she used this paint scheme in 1943-1944.
And had its uses against the Japanese for night fighting since they had no radar and were reliant on visual observation, which they were good at for night combat. It made the ship harder to be spotted from the air. Even the North Carolina-class was using it until 1942. This paint job didn't last long after Pearl Harbor, December 1941. Meant for better use against surface observation. Ship camouflage WWI thru WWII went through a lot of effort to do all that. The purpose of camouflage is to prevent correct identification of the ship- well, if the ship looks different going and coming, that makes it a better camouflage, right? It'll confuse enemy sighting reports, maybe even cause them to think it's a completely different ship type, or generate multiple conflicting reports that result in the enemy not being able to make an identification at all beyond "there was a ship here."
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