Amazing thing history isn't it? I'm reading this fascinating book about the magician Jasper Maskelyne. He was the grandson of John Neville Maskelyne the fellow who created the Magic Circle.
During World War Two he voluntered his services to the Army as a camoflage expert and was shipped to Egypt, then under threat from Rommel's Afrika Corps. The Army needed tanks, but the only ones available were painted in green forest camoflage making them dead easy to spot.
Having no brown paint the Army turned to the magician. Finding gallons of Worcester Sauce in a dump outside Alexandria, it was mixed with camel dung to make a brown paint that didn't smell too bad when it dried.
Amazing stuff and good in a Bloody Hell Mary too, the sauce that is not the camel dung
2007-11-27 @ 13:55