Comments on: Levity through airpower

By: Airminded · The wooden bombs return

Airminded · The wooden bombs return — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:02:47 +0000

[...] a Belgian writer who is working with Peter Haas and Pierre-Antoine Courouble to track down wooden bomb eyewitnesses: Three authors (from Belgium, Germany and France) have been working for years on a [...]

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 05:43:50 +0000

Here's a fairly early version of the wooden bomb story, from a diary entry of 24 March 1941:

John is at present blowing up orchards at Wisbech. He tells various yarns but vowed this was true. Near his camp is a “dummy ‘drome”. This is quite feasible but he declares that a Ger. bomber flew over it and dropped wooden bombs then flew off and bombed the real ‘drome with live ones! And they say Gers. have no sense of humour.

Source.

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:32:22 +0000

Indeed. I reviewed The Riddle of the Wooden Bombs last year.

By: Peter Farrell-Vinay

Peter Farrell-Vinay — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:00:14 +0000

Brett,

I must not delay, the truth will out:

http://www.lespressesdumidi.fr/the_riddle_wooden_bombs.html

Best

Peter

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:25:01 +0000

Thanks, Peter. See you in 2012!

By: Peter Farrell-Vinay

Peter Farrell-Vinay — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:38:20 +0000

Two years are up: try the book advertised here: http://www.jebelsherif.org/book.html for a reference to the fake north african marshalling yard and wooden bomb.

By: Airminded · The Riddle of the Wooden Bombs

Airminded · The Riddle of the Wooden Bombs — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:00:01 +0000

[...] of my early posts on this blog was about a story which goes something like the following. The Germans are [...]

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:36:26 +0000

Sorry, it was a spam that got through. Deleted now!

By: Pierre Courouble

Pierre Courouble — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:00:33 +0000

Yes?!...
Translation please?
May be a robot language ;o)

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:57:23 +0000

I did come across wooden training bombs when researching this post, but didn't note where I read about them, unfortunately. Perhaps another reader can help you ...