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Originally Posted by Lang
Absolutely no military experience or qualifications on the requirements of battlefield camouflage
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Yes but you could say the same about CSIRO scientists consulted by Army in modern camo development. That’s all Dakin was for the military – a technical consultant. He only had authority over civil camouflage.
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Originally Posted by Lang
anyone with a bit of common sense could have come up with equally efficient, or inefficient, schemes given the facilities and trials he had access to.
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“In point of fact, excellent results can often be obtained by the exercise of common sense, imagination, and attention to detail; it is only in exceptional cases that the services of a specially trained officer should be required.”
EXCEPT…
“Disruptive painting is a positive menace when executed by the inexperienced; it should be left to experts.”
(Training memo 1940)
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Originally Posted by Lang
Still, nobody in Australia was an expert in 1940
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Exactly Lang, that was the whole problem, all the experience and expertise was within AIF and RAAF who were absent at the time. Plus of course Dakin had the ear of Menzies and promoted himself as Technical Director of Camouflage.
