The postcard story illustrates a straightforward form of naval disinformation. A familiar battleship photograph could be relabeled when foreign observers lacked an independent view of the secret ship. Controlling the image and removing scale cues made it difficult to prove the stated dimensions were false. The example shows how secrecy can exploit the limits of photographic intelligence without requiring an elaborate fabrication.
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A Nagato postcard could stand in for Yamato
Japanese publicity could misidentify Nagato as Yamato because a controlled photograph without scale made simple visual deception effective.