[lit-ideas] Re: Plywood bombs
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 15:54:44 -0400
This is as far as the account goes, according to Judy's link.
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As far as we know, its earliest telling comes from CBS news
correspondent William L. Shirer's book, Berlin Diary: The
Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941, in which he
recorded the following entry for 27 November 1940:
X tells me a funny one. He says the British intelligence in
Holland is working fine. Both sides in this war have built a
number of dummy airdromes and strewn them with wooden
planes. X says the Germans recently completed a very large
one near Amsterdam. They lined up more than a hundred dummy
planes made of wood on the field and waited for the British
to come over and bomb them. Next morning the British did
come. They let loose with a lot of bombs. The bombs were
made of wood.
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