An altered service photograph before the Fairmile D shows how visual censorship can be recognised. Unnaturally lightened or scraped regions suggest that details were deliberately obscured before publication. The edited area can be much larger than the secret itself, so a broad patch need not represent a correspondingly large piece of hidden equipment. Wartime photographs document ships while remaining controlled products, and their omissions can carry evidence.
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Reading censorship in wartime naval photographs
Lightened or scraped areas in published service photographs can reveal where wartime censors concealed small but sensitive details.