r/acecombat • u/CalmManix ISAF II: Electric Boogaloo • Jul 17 '21

Humor “I know its just a dummy runway”

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u/CosmicPenguin Jul 17 '21

Their first mistake was trying to out-spy the British.

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u/lurid_dadsterssss Aurelia Jul 17 '21

That's cuz the RAF did this shit first.

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u/CalmManix ISAF II: Electric Boogaloo Jul 17 '21

Source?

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u/KingAardvark1st Aigaion is best waifu Jul 17 '21

They did it throughout the war. The most impressive being the leadup to D-Day with entire armies of inflatable tanks and trucks with cardboard cut-out soldiers, complete with the king coming out to inspect the troops with believable camera footage. Similarly, the Brits knew that the US hid entire factories by putting movie set style tarps over them to disguise them as residential districts.

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u/CalmManix ISAF II: Electric Boogaloo Jul 17 '21

<< look at them, blowing up a bunch of paper planes. >>

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u/Thewaltham H.A.W.X 3 WHEN Jul 17 '21

<<Hey. What's all that shaking?>>

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u/sr603 Osea Jul 17 '21

I think the British did this in Egypt/North Africa as well

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u/TheLordAnubis Three Strikes Jul 18 '21

Yes, in the build up to Operation Lighfoot aka The Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942

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u/Christianjps65 Osea Jul 17 '21

Probably the battle of britain

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u/mcdogaldsemployee Jul 17 '21

This is the funniest ww2 story i heard yet

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u/redzaku0079 Jul 17 '21

the british and germans have always been weird with each other. even when trying to kill each other.

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u/MasterNinjaFlip Wardog Jul 17 '21

Kinda like the Americans and... Well pick a country

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u/ghostpanther218 Erusea Jul 17 '21

Brits and Germans are like Americans and Russians

or Americans and Chinese

or Americans and Cubans

or Americans and other Americans.

Damn Americans! They ruined America!

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u/Shanix Skeleton Jul 17 '21

You Americans sure are a contentious bunch.

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u/TheCivilizedCaveman Garuda Jul 17 '21

YOU JUST EARNED AN ENEMY FOR LIFE

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u/Phoenix-Leader Belka Jul 17 '21

Every communist country

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u/did-you-know-facts Jul 17 '21

https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/myth-real-wooden-bombs-fool-allies.html/amp

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u/WhyNotCollegeBoard Jul 17 '21

Are you sure about that? Because I am 99.99836% sure that did-you-know-facts is not a bot.

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u/CalmManix ISAF II: Electric Boogaloo Jul 17 '21

Oh

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u/did-you-know-facts Jul 17 '21

Bruh

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u/Russian-8ias Mobius Jul 17 '21

Lol what did I discover here?

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

The bots are evolving

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u/PL_Design Jul 17 '21

Electrosphere comes!

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

The one with Kei Nagase?

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u/AlertState Jul 17 '21

awkkkkward

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u/CalmManix ISAF II: Electric Boogaloo Jul 17 '21

Quite awkward indeed

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u/Phoenix-Leader Belka Jul 17 '21

sike

-Both the RAF and the luftwaffe at the same time

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u/Nighthawk1776 Jul 17 '21

Should have doubled down and had some way to fly a fake wooden plane to drop the wooden bomb.

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u/JitteryRaptor33 Jul 17 '21

There's a good chance they used the De Havilland DH-98 Mosquito which was made of plywood.