trollercoaster@sh.itjust.works to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months agoTinfoil is good for more than just making hats...sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up186arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up186arrow-down1imageTinfoil is good for more than just making hats...sh.itjust.workstrollercoaster@sh.itjust.works to History Memes@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square11linkfedilinkfile-text
In order to deceive Nazi Germany about the real target of the D-Day invasion, the Allies dropped literally tons of aluminium foil strips (then codenamed “Window”, now known as Chaff) from aircraft to create the appearance of a large fleet moving across the English Channel towards Calais on German Radar screens just before the actual invasion started
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·3 months agoMy favourite is when the germans made a fake airport/landing strip thingy to make the english spend resources bombing it, and the english bombed it with a single fake wood bomb!
minus-squareAeronMelon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-23 months agoThe only thing missing was a flag that popped out that said “BOOM!”
minus-squaretrollercoaster@sh.itjust.worksOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoThe wooden fake bomb allegedly had an inscription saying something like “fake bombs for fake airfields”.
minus-squarewhyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-23 months agohttps://engineerine.com/rafs-clever-counter-the-wooden-airfield-deception-in-wwii/ found this another one, which I didn’t read because I like the story and don’t want to know the truth https://www.forcesnews.com/feature/did-allied-pilots-really-drop-fake-wooden-bombs-fake-wooden-decoy-airfields
minus-squarejqubed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 months agoIt seems to be a “maybe” with anecdotes from soldiers on both sides but little documentation
My favourite is when the germans made a fake airport/landing strip thingy to make the english spend resources bombing it, and the english bombed it with a single fake wood bomb!
The only thing missing was a flag that popped out that said “BOOM!”
The wooden fake bomb allegedly had an inscription saying something like “fake bombs for fake airfields”.
https://engineerine.com/rafs-clever-counter-the-wooden-airfield-deception-in-wwii/
found this
another one, which I didn’t read because I like the story and don’t want to know the truth
https://www.forcesnews.com/feature/did-allied-pilots-really-drop-fake-wooden-bombs-fake-wooden-decoy-airfields
It seems to be a “maybe” with anecdotes from soldiers on both sides but little documentation
Excellent 👍🏼!