Three Great British Wartime Deceptions
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Published 2018-08-15
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Tales of Gallipoli and the Dardanelles in World War One, El Alamein in WW2, and of the extraordinarily successful failure that was Operation Camilla in East Africa. One man with terrific hair rambles for over half an hour about ruses of deceit against the enemies of the Empire.
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All Comments (21)
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The Sergeant-Major growled at the young soldier: "I didn’t see you at camouflage training this morning." Soldier: "Thank you very much, sir."
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The Tank-Lorry disguise is the military equivalent of one kid standing on other's shoulder and covering up with an overcoat.
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Sun Tzu: "All warfare is based on deception; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. "
British: "When we are near, we make the enemy believe that we tried to make them believe we are near but we are far away but we are actually near them the whole time."
Sun Tzu: "Damn son. Very nice!" -
‘A plan so cunning, you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel’.
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They’re actually called Battle Bamboozles
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Only lindybeige can make galipoli into a tale of British military triumph
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The British: What the hell are you Italians doing here?
The italians: I should ask you the same question. -
That one lone radio operator in the qattara depression unwittingly providing such helpful code-cracking... I feel bad for having such a good giggle about that.
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English general: "I have a cunning plan!" and it was actually cunning!
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When talking about fuel cans in the desert, you miss a chance of a rather interesting digression (how unlike you...). The fuel cans used by the Afrika Korps were greatly superior to those issued to the Eighth Army - which were prone to splitting when roughly handled. As such, fuel cans nicked from the Germans were highly prized amongst the British. This is how the term Jerry-can entered the English language.
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The last one is hilarious :D
"We're gonna attack you on the left! Hear me? On the left!"
"Ooh shit, better hide on the right."
Even the best strategists underestimated italian self-preservation and indifference to any colonies :D -
Just imagine being a turk in the trenches thinking every morning "this is it this is the day I die" just to find out that they were played like a damn fiddle
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I guess there's something to be said for consolidating more Italian forces together so you can make them all surrender at once rather than chasing them around different countries.
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In Camilla, whereby Italians withdrew from what they thought was a target, before it as attacked reminds me of the old joke: How do you spot an Italian tank? (It has one forward gear and four reverse).
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Legend has it the Turks are still waiting for the attack. "Aaaany minute now"
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Whenever you feel sad in life remember someone somewhere had dysentery and frostbite at the same time
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If the Entente commanders had been as inventive upon landing as they were upon leaving, Gallipoli may have turned out differently for them.
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That second deception was absolutely unbelievably marvelous
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When growing up I remember hearing stories of a man how made an anti tank mine that look like camel droppings with the idea that enemy tank drivers would drive over camel droppings because the weight of the droppings would set of a mine so intact droppings no mined. They caught on to this trick so he made a mine with tank tracks going through the droppings and next with criss crossed tracks going through droppings to fool the enemy.
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#4: Pretending to take tea time but actually doing something more sinister
