1. Purpose This manual provides a guide for personnel responsible for planning and camouflaging fixed installations. 2. Scope This manual covers methods of camouflaging fixed installations such as airfields, supply facilities, transportation facilities, buildings, and other objects and installations of a permanent or semipermanent nature. The material presented herein is applicable to nuclear and nonnuclear warfare. 3. General The basic principles of camouflage, factors of recognition, construction methods, and the geographic factors effecting camouflage outlined in FM 5-20 are applicable to the camouflage of fixed installations, the primary difference being larger and more detailed camouflage construction of a more permanent nature. Terms used in this manual are general.
DesignationFM 5-21
EditionDec 1958
StatusSuperseded
Pages88
FunctionEngineering
CollectionHistoric
Public domain (U.S. Government work)