Looks like a jobs program for well connected people, to serve and not be shot at. They had enough spare trucks and tanks that they could have used real ones.
They utilized the skills of artists, painters and creatives that were drafted. Pilots from the air couldn’t tell the difference between real troop movements and painted ones.
It just looks like complet bullshit. These were probably the same artists that Roosevelt paid gobs of money to during the depression to make propaganda.
Ah, the follies of youth who never lived the era, and assume itall just stories. The Greatest Generation fostered dedicated troops who lived throught the Depression and FDRs CCC and other programs forged a brotherhood that enlisted in the service TOGETHER as cohesive units that knew discipline in ranks. Deception in war is so Sun Tzu that it succeeded in WW2 to our benefit.
Youngster, show a lot more respect for men with backbones seen ONCE in living memory.
I didn't buy the story when I was 12 reading about ww2 and I don't buy it now. I know rich yahoo's at the time would need a safe space for their kids.....
Looks like a jobs program for well connected people, to serve and not be shot at. They had enough spare trucks and tanks that they could have used real ones.
They utilized the skills of artists, painters and creatives that were drafted. Pilots from the air couldn’t tell the difference between real troop movements and painted ones.
I'm familer with the division.
It just looks like complet bullshit. These were probably the same artists that Roosevelt paid gobs of money to during the depression to make propaganda.
I'm with you, seems an exaggerated old war story. If one inflatable tank comes loose and the wind rolls it over, the gig is up.
Ah, the follies of youth who never lived the era, and assume itall just stories. The Greatest Generation fostered dedicated troops who lived throught the Depression and FDRs CCC and other programs forged a brotherhood that enlisted in the service TOGETHER as cohesive units that knew discipline in ranks. Deception in war is so Sun Tzu that it succeeded in WW2 to our benefit. Youngster, show a lot more respect for men with backbones seen ONCE in living memory.
They'd have had to PAY to move heavy real ones. I'm sure the ease of moving them place to place was part of why they used blow ups and not real ones.
Not much of a factor, at those times.
If there's one thing the army is really really good at, it's moving shit around.
I didn't buy the story when I was 12 reading about ww2 and I don't buy it now. I know rich yahoo's at the time would need a safe space for their kids.....