Thanks to Bletchley Park reading German ciphers, Allied high command could watch the Germans fall for the deception almost in real time.
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!
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
It seems to be a “maybe” with anecdotes from soldiers on both sides but little documentation
Excellent 👍🏼!
The only thing missing was a flag that popped out the said “BOOM!”
The wooden fake bomb allegedly had an inscription saying something like “fake bombs for fake airfields”.
Did Germany even have radar in WWII?
Some, but since radar was a defensive tool, and the glorious Nazi would of course perpetually be on the victorious offense, so there wasn’t much… Political Will to build radar systems.
And when they did, there wasn’t much money for it.
But they did exist.
I am not sure if the Nazis did but I read the Allied forces tried to conceal the fact that they invented radars by making up a saying that carrots improve your eye sight and that is how they were able to spot the German planes so far away. I am about 90%-ish sure of this fact
Both sides had radar in general, and knew about the other side having it.
The carrot propaganda part is true though, but it is specifically about covering up the fact that the allies had developed aircraft intercept radar, i.e. radar mounted on the planes.
