Not surprisingly, Harley Earl and his team wrote the book on camouflage during the height of World War Two. Here's the billboard paragraph verbatim:

"The object of this booklet is to outline the general principles of the art and practice of camouflage as simply and as concisely as possible so that, with some experience in the handling of materials and with the ingenuity necessary, the camouflage designer will be able to apply his knowledge successfully to any problem which arises, be it of a military or civil nature."

Below, are the very first few pages and last two pages of this 22 page manual that was actually owned by one of Harley Earl's senior designers at this time during the war in 1942. Actually, Henry Lauve was very much in the running to take over the GM Styling Section after Harley Earl instead of his fierce rival, William (Bill) Mitchell, who landed in the spot. Notice too, on the last page shown below that Harley Earl's youngest brother who was born in 1908, William O. Earl played an important role in creating this Camouflage Manual. At this time during the war, Bill Earl was a junior lieutenant in the Signal Corp. [what would later become the USAF] and was one of Harley's most trusted go-between-men working with various branches of the U.S. military. 

The last 2-pages, below, show top players responsible for crafting this impressive manual inside GM Styling:

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Other top players named from GM Styling's Camouflage School Organization Chart: Howard O'Leary, R.E. Bingman, Leroy Kiefer, Henry, Lauve, Jules Andrade, J.S. McDaniel, Vince Kapture, C.J. Klein, K.E. Coppock and S. Landsen. Below are a couple of photos of another project Earl's Styling team collaborated with Lockheed to create during the Korean War -- a double-decker Naval transport plane named, CONSTITUTION. Both Harley Earl, ninth from left, and Henry Lauve, fifteenth from left, are amongst the central "appearance engineers" employed to build this exciting new-styled plane. 

All this material shown at this section, including this above rendering by Henry Lauve of a soldier with futuristic nuances, is from a wonderful archive preserved by John Lauve. After his father passed away in 2000, John has done a great job preserving this intriguing collection of art work and numerous GM Styling artifacts.