I don't think an able submarine skipper could be fooled by a false bow wave/stern wake. The problem: if you can't align to the superstructure, there is another perfect vertical line on the target. making it more difficult to align the vertical line "in" the periscope to an imagined vertical line of the target. Neither am I, however, I believe that it made aiming through a periscope more difficult not because of false impressions of heading and speed but because of interrupting and breaking the outlines of the superstructure, i.e. However I am not an expert on camouflage. This was at a time when the threat of attack from the air was not appreciated for what it became, and submarines were considered the main hidden danger to surface ships.
RF wrote:I believe (I may be wrong in this) that the camouflage scheme was aimed at making submarine attack more difficult, by giving a false impression as to the targets size and speed.
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