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The "Ghost Army"
Why would the military blow up its own tanks in World War II? Because they were inflatable!
This phony tank is similar to what the Luftwaffe saw from the air. Wooden planes, make-believe soldiers, sound effects, and more were developed to mislead Germany about the location and the date of the D-Day invasion of France. Later, on the battlefields of Europe, the phantom divisions and fictitious convoys sometimes operated very close to the front lines and were amazingly effective at fooling the enemy about the strength and location of the Allied units.
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