Richard Brooks wrote:

What can you recall?


Smoky black as you can and diffuse those searchlight beams. Don't
forget the carrots of course.


What you recall seems to differ from the record. A very shiny and smooth
gloss paint called Jet Black was developed for night camouflage. The Jet
Black finish was found to be "totally invisible in 80% of all passes made
through searchlights." The finish came to be known as "anti-searchlight
paint".

"Air Force Colors, Volume Two, ETO & MTO 1942-1945" by Dana Bell, page 47.



You'd probably do it much more different of course.


Of course.