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A fascinating article about the military deception using rubber tanks, mocked up artillery pieces and sound effects broadcast by the US Signals Division using state of the art amplifiers which gave the impression of large troop movements to mislead the Germans in the later stages of WW2. To wit:

All the men were told that they had to consider themselves part of a travelling roadshow ready to perform at a moment’s notice. One week they might pretend to be the 75th Infantry Division, the next the 9th Armored Division. ‘We must remember that we are playing to a very critical and attentive radio, ground, and aerial audience,’ Ghost Army commander Colonel Harry Reeder explained to his officers. ‘They must all be convinced.’

READ ON: Weapons Of Mass Deception (Works That Work)

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A series of maps featured in Look At The World: The Fortune Atlas Of World Strategy (1943) by renowned US cartographer Richard Edes Harrison – skillfully hand drawn views of the globe (the precursors to modern satellite images) for the ‘air age’.

World War 2 Led To A Revolution In Cartography. These Amazing Maps Are Its Legacy (New Republic)

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An imaginative short by Randy Gudin, Xavier Lafarge, Bruno Lévêque, Aurélien Rigaudeau, Téo Saintier, Coline Sapin, Rémi Stompe and Laszlo Trachsel – all students of ISART Digital animation school.

During the Second World War, an English paratrooper crash-lands in a forest leaving him wounded. He meets a creature that tries its best to help him. However, the ordeal is just beginning…

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Glencree German Military Cemetery is situated in the Wicklow Mountains National Park south of Dublin.  There are 127 Second World War burials here, many of whom were either Luftwaffe personnel whose aircraft got lost in bad weather, or sustained damage on raids over England and were unable to find their way home, or perhaps ran out of fuel due to navigational errors and crashed in Ireland, or Kriegsmarine personnel who lost their lives at sea and whose bodies were washed up on Irish shores.  53 of these men are identified, but 28 are sadly unknown.

Hat tip to Luciano who sez:

Did you know? I didn’t know.

We didn’t know.

German Military Cemetery, Glencree (The Big Note)