The riddle of the wooden bombs

The riddle of the wooden bombs

Wood for wood !

In order to deceive the Allies during the Second World War, the Germans built fake airfields, often with runways and sometimes with buildings, but always with fake planes made out of wood, which they called « attrappen ». A number of strange stories can be heard about some of these in which English planes (for the most part) made fun of them by dropping wooden bombs on them on which they'd sometimes painted remarks like « Wood for wood ». Seventy years later the matter of these wooden bombs has generally been relegated to the realms of urban legend. However, is that really all there is to it ? This book is the first to be written on a controversial subject that has never been dealt with by specialists.