soc.history.war.world-war-ii

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teuton263@aol.com at teuton263@aol.com wrote on 2/20/08 10:10 AM:

> I was wondering if the related story of the German "wooden airfield"
> in the Netherlands was indeed true or just a myth.

I can't vouch for that, but I have seen photographs of an airfield, probably
in Belgium or maybe northern France, where all the hangars were disguised as
houses or other kinds of civilian buildings. They did a good job on the
buildings, but it was surely wasted effort since there were other giveaways.
For instance, it would only take one photo-recon plane coming back with a
single pic of a German plane outside a hangar to give the game away.

Michael