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Show U. S. Army Revises Its Color Specifications Paint specifications of the U. S. army formerly included paints of 175 different colors and tints. Due to a simplification program in which the various war agencies cooperated, cooperat-ed, army ordnance has eliminated 103 shades, and standardized 72 colors. col-ors. Color markings for overseas shipments ship-ments have been standardized as follows: Yellow for ordnance, light blue for air forces, red for engineers, engi-neers, blue for chemical warfare, willow green for quartermaster, orange or-ange for signal corps, maroon for medical corps, and light gray for transportation. Different kinds of bombs fragmentation, frag-mentation, armor-piercing, smoke or demolition and ammunition, whether ball, tracer, incendiary, ar-nor-piercing or high explosive, have respective identifying shades of color col-or assigned to them to facilitate their identification and handling in the confusion of combat. Camouflage colors also have been standardized, and manuals giving a glossary of paints and coatings for specific surfaces, with characteristics characteris-tics and application data, have been issued to troops. |