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.
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some of them
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.
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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.
Edit: I’m an idiot, the article says RAF, it was 100% the British.
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.
They had training missions into enemy territory with fake ordinance?
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.
Eeeyup! And IIRC consequences back at base but eh, worth it.
And did their CO ever do anything that landed him in the history books besides yelling at them for this historical prank? You are welcome, sir.
I was about to ask. I’d hope command didn’t risk a pilot’s life to reveal strategic intel.
Where did you read about it?
Anyone have an actual citation on this particular fact?
I did and turns out this fact is made of wood.
That is very Monty Pythonesque. British humor is something special
I assume they knew because of the enigma cracking?
If 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.
What a flex
Lmao, absolutely. Imagine being the reconnaissance that had to report this to command.
Someone needs to make a “Hitler reacts” parody video for this story.
lol hell yes
Would’ve been embarrassing if they’d been wrong and the airfield was real
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“But ve worked very hard to trick you :(”