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voor de liefhebbers van naval vessels ;)

FM 30-50 Identification of United States Naval Vessels 1941

At the beginning of the 1940?s it again became apparent that ship identification models would be a necessary aid to supplement the identification manuals then in use. 
These pocket-size "Basic Field Manual?s", produced by the War Department, were essentially picture and plan books that covered the ships of the various naval powers. 
Some of the pictures in the manuals are of models that were specifically produced for the purpose. 
The Office of Naval Intelligence published an extensive series of identification manuals during the war years and pictures of models continued to be used for target angle pictures and identification. 

These models were initially built at the David Taylor Model Basin in Carderock, Maryland, and in 1941 by a Mr. Van Riper, a professional model builder in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts. An article in the January 1944 issue of Popular Mechanics shows women at the David Taylor facility making 1:500 scale ship models.

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