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title: '...Get in the Shadow'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/get-in-the-shadow-camouflage-blinds-the-enemy-1941/
description: 'Camouflage training poster seen from above: a rifleman in tan kit on open grass is labelled ''Wrong'' and another in dark kit lying inside a dark shadow'
section: Collection
---

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[![...Get in the Shadow, 1941 US poster: Camouflage training poster seen from above](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/get-in-the-shadow-camouflage-blinds-the-enemy-1941.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/get-in-the-shadow-camouflage-blinds-the-enemy-1941.jpg)

# ...Get in the Shadow

Camouflage training poster seen from above: a rifleman in tan kit on open grass is labelled 'Wrong' and another in dark kit lying inside a dark shadow is labelled 'Right'. The sheet is mainly instructional; the only persuasion device is the slogan 'Camouflage blinds the enemy', so the technique is faint here.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
WRONG
RIGHT
....GET IN
THE SHADOW
CAMOUFLAGE BLINDS THE ENEMY
```

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