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Specialist troops, notably [[snipers]], could be supplied with various items of camouflage, including patterned veils for the head and gun, hand-painted overalls and scrim covered netting or sacking - an adaptation of the rag camouflage used in [[Scotland]] by anti-poaching wardens, ''gillies'', the first [[ghillie suit]]s.

 

 

The first mass produced military camouflage material was the Italian ''telo mimetico'' ("mimetic cloth") pattern of 1929, used to cover a shelter-half (''telo tenda''), an idea copied by the Germans in 1931. With mass-production of patterned fabrics possible, they became far more common on individual soldiers in WW II. Initially patterning was uncommon, a sign of elite units, to the extent that captured camouflage uniforms would be often 'recycled' by an enemy. The Red Army issued "amoeba" disruptive pattern suits to snipers from 1937 and all-white ZMK top-garments the following year, but it was not until hostilities began that more patterns were used.

The British did not use disruptive-pattern uniforms until 1942, with the hand-painted [[Denison smock]] for paratroopers, followed in 1943 with a similar style M42 garment.

 

 

The US Corps of Engineers began wide-ranging experiments in 1940, but little official notice was taken until 1942 when General [[Douglas MacArthur|MacArthur]] demanded 150,000 jungle camouflage uniforms. A 1940 design, dubbed "frog-skin", was chosen and issued as a reversible beach/jungle coverall - soon changed to a two-part jacket and trousers. It was first issued to the [[US Marines]] fighting on the [[Solomon Islands]]. Battle-field experience showed that pattern was unsuitable for moving troops and production was halted in 1944 with a return to standard single-tone uniforms.

=== Ship camouflage ===

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World War I also saw the advent of ship camouflage. Although most warships were still painted a uniform grey, five schemes were approved in the United States for merchant ship camouflage. Ships without camouflage were required to pay higher war risk premiums.