The phenomenon of CAMOUFLAGE was already known before WW1 but this very war accelerated this skill.
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The phenomenon of CAMOUFLAGE was already known before WW1 but this very war accelerated this skill. One of the camouflaged inventions was the O.P. TREE = observation post tree called Baumbeobachter in German. It didn’t take long for all the belligerents to realize the importance of camouflage in war. To make most out of it, masters of the visual arts were brought in for the job. The first nation to embrace camouflage was France. It was the department of “camoufleurs,” led by painter Lucien-Victor Guirand de Scévola that invented the first fake tree. They put it to use during the Battle of Artois in late 1914 as an observation point for directing artillery fire. Even though the project proved to be a success, it was still just the beginning. It was a costly innovation since 15 camoufleurs were killed on the frontlines while installing fake trees. The French, being the pioneers in war camouflage, were approached by the British, who took the art of concealing to a higher ...