WWII - the British saw them coming..

[Mik]

During WW2, the Germans built fake wooden airfields with wooden aircraft and vehicles in order to trick the Allies, however, the RAF responded by waiting for them to finish and then dropped a single fake wooden bomb on it.

[Doctor Phibes]

That's such a British thing to do

[Catseye3]

Luv the tailfins.

Wait -- this is triggering a half-memory of the British doing something like this to fool the Germans, but the brain is not cooperating. What is it I'm trying to think of?

[kluurs]

@catseye3 said in WWII - the British saw them coming..:

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The British had inflatable tanks.

[Catseye3]

No, this was the building of an entire encampment, which was all fake. I even remember they had a guy walking around who looked like (from overhead) and dressed like a known commander -- or maybe even the guy his ownself.

[Doctor Phibes]

@catseye3 said in WWII - the British saw them coming..:

No, this was the building of an entire encampment, which was all fake. I even remember they had a guy walking around who looked like (from overhead) and dressed like a known commander -- or maybe even the guy his ownself.

http://www.americainwwii.com/articles/pattons-ghost-army/

[Mik]

@doctor-phibes said in WWII - the British saw them coming..:

That's such a British thing to do

It is. No sense wasting real ammunition. I loved it.

[Catseye3]

That's it! Except with a lot more detail than whatever my source had provided.

Thanks, Phibes!