"Last Ditch Effort: German Tanks Were Disguised To Look" Topic
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| Tango01 | 05 Jul 2022 4:49 p.m. PST |
… Like American Tanks For The Battle of the Bulge "Deception is a useful and commonly used military tactic. It can be used to confuse your enemy, feed them wrong information so they draw up improper plans, or simply to help cover up a retreat. Depending on the exact form of deception being carried out, it can border on or even become a war crime. During the Ardennes Offensive in 1944, the Germans skirted around this fine line when they dressed up their tanks to look like American ones. The Ardennes Offensive was Hitler's last major attempt to regain the initiative against the Allies, with masses of men and equipment being gathered to make this happen. Powerful tanks like the Jagdtiger and Tiger II saw relatively widespread use in the offensive…"
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| 42flanker | 06 Jul 2022 11:50 a.m. PST |
"Is that an advancing Panther or a retreating M10?" "Is it firing at us?" |
| d88mm1940 | 06 Jul 2022 1:01 p.m. PST |
Germans have been doing this already during the war.
Rommel had dressed up Kubelwagons to look like "tanks".
Of course, the Brits know how to do it right…
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| Tango01 | 06 Jul 2022 3:15 p.m. PST |
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 Legion 4  | 10 Jul 2022 5:01 p.m. PST |
Sun Tzu, to paraphrase … All War is deception … |
| Tango01 | 10 Jul 2022 5:12 p.m. PST |
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