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Not only do the U.S. Army and Navy give courses on camouflage, but the Office of Civilian Defense has established a camouflage bureau, and a number of educational institutionsצf which New York's Pratt Institute rates high with the Army—are lending a hand in spreading the gospel. In the latter organizations, many architectural students are learning ways of putting into their architectural designs refinements that permit quick, complete camouflage as necessity arises. For term exercises, students this year made models of hypothetical objectives, disguised them with the latest structural camouflage techniques.
One such model, made by students at Syracuse University, showed an Army reception center as it would normally appear from a height of 5,000 ft., with rectangular lines and shadows, and a white circular roadway clearly identifying its function. In the camouflaged version the central mess hall and some of the barracks have been mottled with paint, the central road circle has been painted out, and straight lines and shadows have been broken up with the aid of sloping fabric screens, transplanted trees and painted fiber board. A dummy silo completes the illusion of ah innocent-looking three-building farm group.
One of the most elaborate jobs of this kind ever revealed (still a much-studied example in army camouflage textbooks) is the famous-and ultimately unsuccessful-deception practiced by German camoufleurs in turning one of Hamburg's waterways into an imitation of city blocks, thoroughfares and public squares.