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.
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.
Even regular pows had it pretty good, lots were out to work on farms in the Midwest then stayed and hung their shingle.
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?
As a German I was wondering how the Red Army Faction time-travelled to WW2.
Turns out RAF = Royal Air Force
When I first moved to Germany, I was surprised by the amount of leftists that seemed to support the Royal Air Force, lol
For WW2, It's complicated, they did fight the nazis but they also applied carpet bombing.
You can appreciate one without forgetting the other.
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Anyone have an actual citation on this particular fact?
I did and turns out this fact is made of wood.
I fucking knew it.
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.
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.
Would've been embarrassing if they'd been wrong and the airfield was real
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
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