Thanks to Bletchley Park reading German ciphers, Allied high command could watch the Germans fall for the deception almost in real time.
Thanks to Bletchley Park reading German ciphers, Allied high command could watch the Germans fall for the deception almost in real time.
My favourite is when the germans made a fake airport/landing strip thingy to make the english spend resources bombing it, and the english bombed it with a single fake wood bomb!
The only thing missing was a flag that popped out that said “BOOM!”
The wooden fake bomb allegedly had an inscription saying something like “fake bombs for fake airfields”.
https://engineerine.com/rafs-clever-counter-the-wooden-airfield-deception-in-wwii/
found this
another one, which I didn’t read because I like the story and don’t want to know the truth
https://www.forcesnews.com/feature/did-allied-pilots-really-drop-fake-wooden-bombs-fake-wooden-decoy-airfields
It seems to be a “maybe” with anecdotes from soldiers on both sides but little documentation
Excellent 👍🏼!