There’s an urban legend where the Krauts were building a fake military base using wood and canvas and the allies waited for them to finish it and drop a single wooden bomb on it.
The fake army that worked
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Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club to historymemes@piefed.social
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MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
janus2@lemmy.zip 9 hours ago whether or not that’s real, that’s hysterical
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Even if I were a german soldier in that situation I’d laugh my ass off.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Putting a real general in charge of it probably helped too.