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 1 year ago
bitwaba@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They had training missions into enemy territory with fake ordinance?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 year 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 1 year ago
I was about to ask. I’d hope command didn’t risk a pilot’s life to revel strategic intel.
setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Where did you read about it?
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Danke, das war verwirrend
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yet, wasn’t surprised they had boomers? :p
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Anyone have an actual citation on this particular fact?
Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I did and turns out this fact is made of wood.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I fucking knew it.
nl4real@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Unofrtunately, unlikely, per Snopes: www.snopes.com/fact-check/wooden-bomb/
kromem@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
That is very Monty Pythonesque. British humor is something special
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I assume they knew because of the enigma cracking?
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Would've been embarrassing if they'd been wrong and the airfield was real
nick@midwest.social 1 year ago
What a flex
MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Lmao, absolutely. Imagine being the reconnaissance that had to report this to command.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Someone needs to make a “Hitler reacts” parody video for this story.
Hupf@feddit.de 1 year ago
!noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works
RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“But ve worked very hard :(”
marcos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
It’s almost like Nazis were naturally unkind people.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
And yet later some of them decided gitmo was a good idea…
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Even regular pows had it pretty good, lots were out to work on farms in the Midwest then stayed and hung their shingle.