soc.history.war.world-war-ii

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> The Germans for months had been building a wooden airfield complete
> with wooden defenses and fake aircraft in Holland to fool the Allies.
> Yet since it had taken so long to construct, the Allies had passed
> over it many times and took photos of the construction. Once
> completed, the Allies sent a single aircraft and dropped a symbolic
> wooden bomb on it!

Have you any documentary proof?

I ask only because this story has been going around for decades (I first
heard it as a schoolboy over four decades ago) and the perfectly reasonable
objection from my history teacher (who was a decorated veteran of the RAF)
was that the RAF certainly wouldn't risk a perfectly serviceable aircraft
and its crew on such a fool's errand.

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.