Razzle Dazzle Battleships
During WWI, German U-Boats were alarmingly effective at sinking allied warships and transport vessels alike. But since a ship couldn’t exactly be cloaked, Norman Wilkinson, British artist and naval officer, developed another method nicknamed razzle dazzle. U-Boats were effective but simple—they shot torpedoes, not directly at ships, but where they estimated a ship would end…