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FF12-10/S19/(70) COMMANDER SUBMARINE FORCE UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET Ws Serial 0649 Care of Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California, 4 April 1944. CONFIDENTIAL From: The Commander Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet. To: The Commander Training Command, Submarine Force,     Pacific Fleet. The Commander Submarine Squadron Four. The Commander Submarine Squadron Six. The Commander Submarine Squadron Eight. The Commander Submarine Squadron Ten. The Commander Submarine Squadron Twelve. Ths Commander Submarine Squadron Fourteen. The Commander Submarine Squadron Twenty. The Commander Submarine Squadron Twenty Two.   Subject: Countershading of all Vessels Excluding Submarines. Reference:     (a)  BuShips Conf. ltr C-S19-7(631) over C-EN28/ A2-11 of 25 March 1944.      1.      Reference (a) is Quoted for information: "Ref:        (a) CINCPAC conf. ltr. 26Cl-43 dated 8 Oct. 1943. "1.          Supplementing existing camouflage instructions, it is desired that the under sides of all exterior over-hanging horizontal surfaces be painted white, formula 5-U. It is also desired that all vertical surfaces and the overhead of deep recesses be painted white. The deck area, in way of such recesses, should be painted Deck Blue in accordance with existing instructions. "2.          The foregoing instructions are applicable to all vessels under construction or conversion and to vessels in service on which camouflage measures are applied, irrespective of the measure which is used, except that they are not applicable to submarines. "3.          This procedure constitutes a minimum amount of countershading which is considered necessary. Additional countershading instructions applicable to vessels requiring pattern camouflage measures will be forwarded with the working   - 1 -

FF12-10/S19/(70) COMMANDER SUBMARINE FORCE UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET Ws Serial 0649 Care of Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California, 4 April 1944. CONFIDENTIAL Subject:     Countershading of all Vessels Excluding Submarines. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - drawings for those vessels, in accordance with reference (a)." MERRILL COMSTOCK,  Chief of Staff.   Copy to:      SubAd   E. L. Hynes, 2nd, Flag Secretary.         -2-

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