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FM/C-S19/(70-8)
Serial 03283
FLEET MAINTENANCE OFFICE
COMMANDER SERVICE FORCE
UNITED STATES PACIFIC FLEET

CONFIDENTIAL

From: Commander, Service Force, Pacific Fleet,
  (Fleet Maintenance Office).
To: Commandant, Navy Yard, Mare Island
Commandant, Navy Yard, Puget Sound
Commanding Officer, U.S. Naval Drydocks,
  Terminal Island
 
SUBJECT:       Camouflage Painting of Combatant Vessels now Under Overhaul

     1.       It is desired that the vessels listed below, which are completing availabilities within the next few weeks, be camouflaged in accordance with Measure 22, a graded system using horizontal bands of Navy Blue and Haze Gray.

     2.       The following is the list of vessels involved, with overhauling activities. It is desired that any additional vessels of these types, made available at a later date and completing within the period covered by the following list, be similarly camouflaged:

  Navy Yard, Puget Sound   BB42, BB58, DD609, DD645, and DD646.
 
  Navy Yard, Mare Island CA35, DD472, DD473, DD474, DD475, DD500, DD501, DD502, DD513, DD515, DD516, DD573, DD574, DD575, DD576, and DD660.
 
Naval Drydocks, Terminal
  Island
CL55

 

J.C. Huse,
By direction.

Copy to:
  CinCPac
  BuShips
  Com5thFlt
  CO NDD, Hunter's Point
  AstNavIndMan, SanFran

 


SOURCE:
National Archives & Records Administration, Seattle Branch
Record Group 181, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Central Subject Files, 1940-50

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