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Show Lipstick, Face Cream, Paint Disguise and Protect Our Fighting Men Cosmetics for camouflage, for preventing pre-venting skin chapping and sunburn, and for other similar purposes are reaching overseas theaters of operation opera-tion in large quantities, the war department de-partment says. When cosmetics are used for camouflage, cam-ouflage, the basic objective is to eliminate the bright reflection of the white skin and to obscure the pattern pat-tern of the face by putting the paint on in irregular blotches. Cosmetics are used by virtually all combat elements ele-ments including certain ground echelons eche-lons of the army air forces. Paint for face and hand camouflage camou-flage has been standardized in nine colors: light green, dark green, sand, field drab, earth brown, earth yellow, yel-low, loam, earth red, and olive drab. Tubes containing these shades are issued to soldiers in appropriate areas, together with small booklets of instructions. Soldiers in desert areas, as well as in extremely cold climates, are supplied sup-plied with chap sticks, since it has been discovered that in dry desert climates lips will crack badly even in temperatures of 110 degrees. Other important aids for the soldier sol-dier are insect repellents and creams to prevent sunburn. The latter lat-ter filter out the sun's burning rays but allow tanning 0f the skin. Hundreds Hun-dreds of thousands of two-ounce containers con-tainers of this preparation are in use by troops at the fronts. |