Bombing the things with stuff

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Bombing the things with stuff


We can't take credit for coming up with this one. It is excerpted 
from "Masquerade: The Amazing Camouflage Deceptions of World War II" 
by Seymour Reit (Signet, 1980):

[One] enemy decoy, built in occupied Holland, led to a tale that has 
been told and retold ever since by veteran Allied pilots.  The German 
"airfield," constructed with meticulous care, was made almost entirely 
of wood.

There were wooden hangars, oil tanks, gun emplacements, trucks, and 
aircraft.  The Germans took so long in building their wooden decoy 
that Allied photo experts had more than enough time to observe and 
report it.

The day finally came when the decoy was finished, down to the last 
wooden plank.  And early the following morning, a lone RAF plane 
crossed the Channel, came in low, circled the field once, and dropped 
a large wooden bomb.


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