subtitled "A new documentary shares the story of the 23rd units daring deceptions".
![When an Army of Artists Fooled Hitler](http://media.smithsonianmag.com/images/631*300/resources-Sonichalftrack-631x300.jpg)
1 posted on
05/21/2013 4:54:46 PM PDT by
SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
We still have inflatable tanks...the acronymn was BATV...don’t remember what it stands for. They now come with a generator and a heating device, to give them a thermal signature.
4 posted on
05/21/2013 5:03:07 PM PDT by
lacrew
(Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
To: SunkenCiv
In an neat coincidence, right now I’m watching my local public TV station which is running a show about the army’s WWII 603rd Camouflage Engineers.
5 posted on
05/21/2013 5:09:56 PM PDT by
DManA
To: SunkenCiv
6 posted on
05/21/2013 5:10:53 PM PDT by
keving
(We get the government we vote for)
To: SunkenCiv
7 posted on
05/21/2013 5:11:12 PM PDT by
keving
(We get the government we vote for)
To: SunkenCiv
The deception was far more elaborate that this brief decription . It also included a body loaded with secret documents winding up on a seacoast controlled by the Nazis.Phoney radio transmissions between units etc as the Germans bought into but never questioned returing recon aircrraft loaded with pics.Which could have been easily shot down.
8 posted on
05/21/2013 5:11:25 PM PDT by
mosesdapoet
(Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
To: SunkenCiv
In the spirit of military achievements mentioned in this article and upcoming Memorial Day, I would suggest watching "Still the Drums", a 5 award winning Independent film production about 4 Vietnam Vets with one a Medal of Honor recipient. I found it quite powerful and will be sharing my copy of the DVD with some of my friends from that era.
24 posted on
05/21/2013 5:54:24 PM PDT by
varon
(USA Nationalist)
To: SunkenCiv
There was a somewhat similar effort on the West Coast of the U.S. during the war. Fearing the possibility of Japanese planes reaching the West Coast, the Hollywood special effects departments camouflaged the rooftops of defense plants so that, from the air, it would look like you were flying over housing developments, wooded areas, or farmland.
To: SunkenCiv
The Man Who Hoodwinked Hitler - BBC Documentary Nine Part series on the topic of the allied misinformation campaign that included inflatable tanks, planes as discussed in this thread. The best part is you aren't beholden to PBS' schedule.
36 posted on
05/21/2013 7:15:56 PM PDT by
lbryce
(BHO:"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds by way Oppenheiner at Trinity NM)
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