The Art of Deception

[Lone*star49]

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I just finishied watching a History channel program on the Gulf War..

It showed Iragi tanks with deceptive side panels.. made of "plastic" to try

and decieve anyone looking at them that they had more armor..

Also.. that many of the surrendering soldiers, where told, and believed, that the M1 tanks where merly
made of "cardboard" and upon many of their surrender, asked if this was true, and when they were allowed to touch the M1 tanks, their eyes got huge..

Strange Facts..

LS

[Hell_Hound]

Don't know how true this one is, but...
It is said that during WW2 many armies had experimented with autoloaders for their artillery pieces, and had never gotten a satisfactory system. The Canadian gunners, though, would lay down such heavy bursts of fire that their enemies decided they must have autoloaders, and occasionally a captured German gunner would ask if he could please see our howitzer autoload system.

According to the story, the gunner gaped in shock to see howitzers with no autoloader - just sweating, cursing Saskatchewan farm boys ramming in shells with machine-like speed...

(I think I read that in South Albertas: A Canadian Regiment at War.)

[3Star]

I had heard the Germans would ask to see the British 'Belt-fed guns'.. referring to the 25pdrs.

NTM

[Trekker]

On a exercise we had been building a ponton bridge at night, and had used big heavy tripods with a spotlight on, the next day a Chez General came to see our work. He asked what the big tripods were, i told him it was state of the art airwarning and radar system. He was amazed that a Sappor plt were equipt whit such gears. The following night we continued working and he came once again.

"WOWW..IT GOT SPOTLIGHTS AS WELL!!!" he screamed.. :P

Later the coy commander forbid me to talk to the general...

[brazen]

during market garden in 1944 the germans got ahold of british codebooks. and colored smoke grenades. over the campaign they directed literally hundreds of tons of british supplies to be dropped behind their lines(more than actually reached the 1st paras!). there were several companies entirely equipped with bren guns, and dozens of jeeps in german service that were recieved from redirected airdrops. one german officer stated that "when we were thirsty we just asked the tommies, and they would deliver right on time"