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narrledudh@hotmail.com at narrledudh@hotmail.com wrote on 2/20/08 7:59 AM:

> I also seem to have forgotten which side (both perhaps?) in North Africa would
> make plywood shells to make non-combat vehicles look like tanks to enemy
> photo-recon.

Before Operation Crusader, the British rigged canvas screens on their tanks
to make them look like trucks. I wonder what they did about the tracks in
the sand though, as I imagine that those for tanks are distinguishable from
those of trucks.

BTW, while we are on the subject of decoys, the book To Fool a Glass Eye by
Roy M. Stanley is an excellent read. He provides many examples of attempts
to camouflage real equipment and facilities and presentation of decoys of
false ones, why some succeeded and others failed.

Michael