Ww2 camouflage patterns Swiss camouflage patterns. It was used by snipers, engineers, and reconnaissance units. Base colors proceed along one timeline, and camo patterns run on a parallel one. Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by armed forces to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. Seen below is a commercial/re-enactor's copy of the WW2 era M38 camouflage pattern, hand-printed, dating from around 2005. The Development of Naval Camouflage 1914 – 1945 Part III: British Camouflage in World War II By Alan Raven (Article reprinted courtesy of Plastic Ship Modeler Magazine issue #97/1) The interwar years found ships of the Royal Navy wearing one of four different paint schemes depending upon which command they were attached to. German World War II camouflage patterns formed a family of disruptively patterned military camouflage designs for clothing, used and in the main designed during the Second World War. France actually produced a copy of the WW2 German splinter pattern camouflage zeltbahn shortly after the end of the Second World War. The camouflage patterns described below mainly apply to armored vehicles. Camouflage on military aircraft. zrpfdjknszbcoepqjcrxwdtxwbkzyixmgxwckgtagyqwxmvthdnrgbialzfilrnjbymticabmbetwmvjtsdli