Andy: Bombing a country is such a breathtakingly serious
issue that to use any comedy on it at all is completely
inappropriate, to put it mildly...
Here's a merry World War II story that illustrates the
propaganda value of humor.
In the middle of the war, the Nazis had constructed a fake
airfield with plywood planes set up on it. The goal was to
distract British bombers from the real Nazi airfields.
British Intelligence learned of the deception. The Brits
bombed the ersatz Nazi airfield with plywood bombs.
Nothing more demoralizing than having your "clever
deception" one-upped!
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