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Via BoingBoing:
This camouflaged Dutch ship successfully disguised itself as a small
tropical
island and avoided the Japanese Navy after the Battle of the Java Sea.
HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen was stationed in the Dutch East Indies when WW
II began. After the destruction of the Allied Fleet by the Japanese
during the Battle of the Java Sea in February 1942, Crijnssen’s captain
was ordered to escape with his ship to Australia. Covered with tree
branches, the minesweeper crossed the Japanese naval lines camouflaged
as a tropical island.
