File:Yehudi Lights on Grumman TBM-3D Avenger.jpg
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Yehudi_Lights_on_Grumman_TBM-3D_Avenger.jpg (318 × 313 pixels, file size: 35 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
[edit]Description | Counter-illumination active Camouflage prototype equipment in Yehudi lights project, fitted on Grumman TBM-3D Avenger naval torpedo bomber in 1944 or 1945. Forward-looking lights helped to balance out the dark outline of the plane when seen from its target, generally a surfaced submarine, against the sky. The range at which the plane could be detected by sight fell from about 12 miles to about 2 miles. |
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Author or copyright owner |
not known, probably US military personnel |
Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: not known |
Date of publication | about 1945 |
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Yehudi lights |
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | Illustrates the nature of the Yehudi lights counter-illumination camouflage prototype, one of the very few working (and published) military uses of this technique. As such the image is of great interest in the camouflage domain. |
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
None is available, and since the Yehudi project closed long ago, none could now be taken. Actually this image was presumably taken by US military staff on the Yehudi lights project in 1944-5, so may well be free of copyright. |
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | This is the only Yehudi lights image anywhere on Wikipedia. It is at low resolution. |
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
There is no sign of commercial use, but this historic image is already available on the web on several sites, and was reduced from the version found on the named source, so any commercial user would take the larger image. |
Other information | Image is most likely taken by a US Government military employee during World War II, and if so would be copyright free. |
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Yehudi lights//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yehudi_Lights_on_Grumman_TBM-3D_Avenger.jpgtrue |
Licensing
[edit]This is a copyrighted and/or unlicensed photograph depicting a watercraft. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Yehudi lights"
qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use and Wikipedia:Copyrights. | |
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