Destroyers

This is what the earliest design drawing for Design 10D drawn for the Dunlap class destroyers dated July 15, 1943, may have looked like. The original has yet to be found. The Measure 31 vertical colors should have been ocean gray (5-O) and dull black (BK) with deck blue (20-B) and possibly ocean gray on horizontal surfaces.

A Design 10D drawing was attached to the July 15, 1943, memo to PacFleet for the DD-384 Dunlap class using Measure 31 probably similar to the above. USS Pensacola (CA-24) appeared at Pearl Harbor in October 1943 in 33/10D. Design 10D was used as a design for the carrier USS Essex (CV-9) that was labeled 32/6-10D and applied during April 1944. The number 6 comes from a table used in some memos between the Bureau of Ships and Pacific Fleet around August 1943. This table listed camouflage designs and the sixth listing in the table under “Patterns” was Design 10D. Design 10D was also drawn for the Buckley class destroyer escorts on December 30, 1943.

Original drawing source: NARA 80-G-000000.