Wooden Bombs This is said to be excerpted from Masquerade: The Amazing Camouflage Deceptions of World War II by Seymour Reit (Signet, 1980): An enemy decoy, built in occupied Holland, was a German “airfield,” constructed with meticulous care, and made almost entirely of wood. There were wooden hangars, oil tanks, gun emplacements, trucks, and aircraft. The day finally came when the decoy was finished, down to the last wooden plank. Early the following morning, a lone RAF plane crossed the Channel, came in low, circled the field once, and dropped a large wooden bomb. Back to Table of Contents -- Courier # 84 To Courier List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2002 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com