An exotic and different camouflage

[pampa14]

I share with you some pictures of aircraft applied with camouflage called Barclay. A question, does this camouflage was used operationally or only a test? To see the photos, please visit the link below.


aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/01/camuflagens-barclay.html


Best Regards.

[komata]

Papma

Thanks for the posting. This might explain the 'Barclay' camouflage:

'In mid-1940, the Navy tested a number of aircraft camouflage schemes designed by the noted artist and Naval Reserve officer McClelland Barclay. Some of these designs were applied to TBD-1 torpedo planes of at least two squadrons, VT-3 and VT-5, and were tested during fleet exercises held at that time. These tests had no lasting effect on U.S. Navy aircraft markings, except, perhaps, to persuade Naval Aviators that disruptive camouflage schemes had little use on planes intended for employment at sea'.(1)

From your photographs, it would seem that the Brewster F2A ('Buffalo') and Vought SB2 were also subjected to similar experimentation.

It's a shame no colour images seem to have survived; they would certainly be different from the norm. 
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(1) 'Douglas TBD-1 Torpedo Planes -- Experimental Camouflage' [online], Department of the Navy', www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/ac-usn22/t-types/tbd-cam.htm [accessed 13 September 2015]