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Thanks to Bletchley Park reading German ciphers, Allied high command could watch the Germans fall for the deception almost in real time.
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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 👍🏼!