The M1942 Frog Skin pattern was the United States military's first attempt at disruptive coloration camouflage. In 1942, the Marine Raiders were the first issued the Frog Skin uniform.
Private Joseph De Freitos of Yonkers (New York) of the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment, 2nd US Armored Division, heats his rations on a stove, taken at Pont-Brocard in late July 1944.
Between the 1950s and the 1970s, the frog skin camouflage pattern saw several applications. Marines had frog skin helmet covers that saw limited action during the Korean War. Cuban exiles, trained in the Florida Everglades by the CIA’s Brigade 2506, wore a frog skin-style uniform during the botched Bay of Pigs invasion.
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