Photo of the Day

an artist saves France

Within weeks of the beginning of World War I, the French Army formed a camouflage unit, becoming the first army in history to incorporate camouflage systematically as an official military tactic.

The unit was comprised of 3,000 men, most of whom had been painters, sculptors or theater set designers before the war.

They were supported by ten thousand French women

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