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United States. US Army Corps of Engineers. European Theatre of Operations. Report No.18: Camouflage Activities June 1942-May 1945. Liaison Section, Intelligence Division, Thus, by the end of 1944 at least 1,710,000 Shrimp Nets, total, were provided to the US by the British. However, that number is imprecise because the document does not list in detail any other sort of nets being provided during this period, and appears to classify all types of helmet netting provided by the British as “shrimp nets”. Given the thoroughness of the rest of the document, the ambiguity of the reference may explained a number of ways, including:

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Foliage' is in a lightweight nylon type material, this can be over sprayed if required and cut without fraying. A similar usage of the term is found in sailcloth manufacture, where scrim is a strong loose weave of fibres laminated into the cloth to provide extra strength and stability to sails. All these numbers come from the chart on pg. 87 of ETO Report No.18: Camouflage Activities June 1942-May 1945. Some of the items we sell are age restricted by law. These are identified as such within the item descriptions. For Communization Zone Factories “Shrimp Net” Production see pg. 97, for 9th Army Factory Production see pg. 99The shrimp net is an item that helps to give a “late war” look to the proper impression. However, we recommend doing unit specific research to see if these nets show up in original photographs or film of the unit you reenact and, if so, when and in what quantity. If a light with a gobo is aimed at a scrim, the image will appear on the scrim, but also any objects behind the scrim will be lit by the pattern as well. [1]

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This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. This style of net is seldom seen among reenactors although up to 60% of all nets in theatre were of a “shrimp net” type or style (or at the very least, 17.4% were if we go with the lowest possible number). The shrimp net is seen in a number of units within the armies in the ETO beginning in the fall of 1944, and becomes more common in photographs from the late Winter and Spring of 1945.

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Reinforcement material [ edit ] Shop windows in the United Kingdom extensively covered with scrim during the 1940-1941 Blitz Scrim and sarking The second step is an analysis of the number of “Shrimp Nets” produced in the camouflage factories.

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A scrim was an integral part of the Beijing Olympic Stadium in Beijing. It was the screen running around the top of the stadium during the opening ceremonies on which all kinds of scenes were projected. Li Ning ran around it just before the cauldron lighting for 2008 Summer Olympics. Officially there was no “M44 Net”. What many reenactors and collectors call “M44 Net” is actually “Net, Helmet, with Band.”“Net, Helmet, with Band” was a late war U.S. Army-developed standard helmet net.(1) It was made from a woven camouflage net, included a foliage band tied on to the rear of the net , and was affixed with an instruction card explaining configurations in which the net could be worn. These nets seem to first appear in use by troops in the ETO during the late Fall of 1944 and become progressively more common until the end of the war in Europe. Shown here over MTP, but works equally well over plain or sprayed helmets and other camouflage patterns.

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A scrim or gauze is often a very light textile made from cotton, or sometimes flax or other materials. It is lightweight and translucent, which means it is often used for making curtains. The fabric can also be used for bookbinding and upholstery. However, we know from other sections of the report that the Camouflage Factories in the theater produced approximately 702,000 shrimp nets. Therefore, if we assume theater produced “Shrimp Nets” are a separate line item, it means that there are 4,025,200 maximum possible helmet nets in theatre. How do these numbers fit in with the total number of Camouflage Helmet Nets in Theatre? The Report No.18: Camouflage Activities June 1942-May 1945 provides the following totals of helmet nets in the European Theater of Operations: In carpentry, scrim is a very heavy, coarsely-woven fabric (similar to hessian or to coarse canvas) which is stretched over interior boards to provide support for wallpaper and to add an extra rigidity. This method of construction, widely used in older houses, is often referred to as " scrim and sarking", the sarking being the board. If we assume that each one was as efficient as the 9th Army Factory, that gives us roughly 702,000 camouflage factory produced shrimp nets.

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A scrim will appear nearly transparent if a scene behind it is lit, but there is no light on the scrim.Thus, from these sources we can reasonably estimate the total number of these nets produced from these sources to be: The author of this piece believes that some of 1/2”“Normandy” Nets might actually be an American procured helmet nets and that the 1/4”“British Style” Net and the Shrimp Net were so similar that they recorded as the same line item. However the author understands that further research is needed to prove this working theory. A scrim is a woven material, either finely woven lightweight fabric widely used in theatre, or a heavy, coarse woven material used for reinforcement in both building and canvasmaking. A scrim will appear entirely opaque if everything behind it is unlit and the scrim itself is grazed by light from the sides or from above.