I’ve read about it and iirc, it’s wasn’t even official mission. It was just pilots goofing off and dropping a training bomb, without command approval.
Showing appreciation for hard work.
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Demdaru@lemmy.world 6 months ago
bitwaba@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They had training missions into enemy territory with fake ordinance?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
More like they had access to training bombs and planes, and frequently flew over enemy territory, so they put those things together and got a mad prank out of it.
Glass0448@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I was about to ask. I’d hope command didn’t risk a pilot’s life to revel strategic intel.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Where did you read about it?
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
As a German I was wondering how the Red Army Faction time-travelled to WW2.
Turns out RAF = Royal Air Force
idiomaddict@feddit.de 6 months ago
When I first moved to Germany, I was surprised by the amount of leftists that seemed to support the Royal Air Force, lol
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
For WW2, It’s complicated, they did fight the nazis but they also applied carpet bombing.
You can appreciate one without forgetting the other.
EunieIsTheBus@feddit.de 6 months ago
Danke, das war verwirrend
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yet, wasn’t surprised they had boomers? :p
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Anyone have an actual citation on this particular fact?
Klear@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I did and turns out this fact is made of wood.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I fucking knew it.
nl4real@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Unofrtunately, unlikely, per Snopes: www.snopes.com/fact-check/wooden-bomb/
kromem@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This is one of those things where I truly don’t care if it’s real or not, as my life is better for knowing about it either way.
Rubanski@lemm.ee 6 months ago
That is very Monty Pythonesque. British humor is something special
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I assume they knew because of the enigma cracking?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is that was the only way they knew they wouldn’t have done it. The Germans not knowing the enigma was cracked was a lot more important than a silly prank.
Norgur@fedia.io 6 months ago
Would've been embarrassing if they'd been wrong and the airfield was real
Express_pickle@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Idk I think it’d been funny either way, if it was a real airfield and they dropped a wooden bomb then that’d been hilarious, I mean just imagine the Germans looking up seeing an RAF bomber and then shitting themself thinking they are about to get bombed only to find out it was wooden all along, Mean while the RAF bomber is flying off with a pilot laughing their head off inside.
nick@midwest.social 6 months ago
What a flex
MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Lmao, absolutely. Imagine being the reconnaissance that had to report this to command.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Someone needs to make a “Hitler reacts” parody video for this story.
Hupf@feddit.de 6 months ago
!noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 6 months ago
“But ve worked very hard :(”
marcos@lemmy.world 6 months ago
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The Germans were utterly fucked when it came to gathering intelligence because threatening captives doesn’t work. Allies put captured generals in a luxury prison and bugged them.
www.bbc.com/news/uk-20698098
disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That was true of Nazi interrogators with the exception of Hanns Scharff. He’s famously known in military intelligence for his use of kindness to extract information from unknowing participants.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Scharff
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It’s almost like Nazis were naturally unkind people.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
And yet later some of them decided gitmo was a good idea…
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Without looking into it, I can guarantee you that no one involved in British Intelligence in WW2 were in the US Army Military Police in Iraq 60 years later. Not everything is connected.
djsoren19@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Yanks are also dogshit at espionage for this reason. I think by Allies this is more referring to the British, whose intelligence was instrumental in winning the war.
Madison420@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Even regular pows had it pretty good, lots were out to work on farms in the Midwest then stayed and hung their shingle.