Comments on: Levity through airpower

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 …

By: Pierre Courouble

Pierre Courouble — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 07:21:03 +0000

I am currently carrying out historical research on wooden bombs. It would seem that there were models of dummy wooden bombs that were used for training on the ground and studying loading into bombers. I would be interested to know if you have any information or photos on this type of bomb? Thank’s

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:13:00 +0000

Pierre, you probably shouldn’t expect an answer from Peter before about 2010 :)

By: Pierre Courouble

Pierre Courouble — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:37:43 +0000

The problem is that I read this book completely and there is nothing that says Peter!… I verified

By: Brett Holman

Brett Holman — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 23:52:29 +0000

I wasn’t expecting an answer after more than 2 years! Thanks.

By: Peter Farrell-Vinay

Peter Farrell-Vinay — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:29:44 +0000

It was somewhere in Anthony Cave Brown, “Bodyguard of Lies”.

By: Neural Gourmet

Neural Gourmet — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 03:44:50 +0000

Clash of the Dummies

Clash of the Dummies – Brett Holman at Air-Minded has an interesting post tracking down the origins and permutations of the famous tale of the Germans who constructed a fake airfield to deceive the British and the British who, undeceived, responded by str