When an Army of Artists Fooled Hitler - This is facinating
May 23, 2013 20:55:00 #
May 24, 2013 03:49:27 #
May 24, 2013 11:11:35 #
I wonder if these were the same guys who created dummy aircraft in Britain earlier in the war to fool the Germans about Allied strength and disposition.
May 24, 2013 12:56:14 #
Remoman wrote:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/When-an-Army-of-Artists-Fooled-Hitler-208304561.html?
They showed a 1 hour program on PBS the other night about this.
May 24, 2013 13:23:54 #
Malcolm B
Loc: Leicester (UK)
We also had dummy ports as well. They were just lights spread out over open countryside and fooled the night-time bombers. I think there was one near Hull on the north-east coast and one at Southampton. There were dummy airfields with inflatable aircraft and net gun emplacements that were used in the North African desert campaign.
May 24, 2013 14:58:26 #
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