• jqubed@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Meanwhile wasn’t there a story about the Germans building a decoy airfield with wooden airplanes and other things to look convincing and then when they finished the Allies sent a single fighter bomber to drop a single wooden bomb decoy on the runway?

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      5 days ago

      I’ve definitely heard variations of that story! I don’t remember the exact details, but I do remember that the basic idea (that a wooden bomb was dropped to mock wooden Nazi decoys) was backed up by several reliable post-war accounts.