Firefly Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 As I type this, I'm listening to a radio chat show where an author is talking about his book on the activities of mad boffins in WW2. It appears that German tankers in N. Africa, believed that driving through piles of camel dung was lucky and the British started producing fake, booby trapped, camel dung in response. Naturally this resulted in the Germans being more circumspect with regard to camel droppings, so the British went one better - fake, booby-tapped camel dung with tire tracks through it! I can't find any of this stuff in the CMAK purchase screen. BFC fix or sumfink! [ January 14, 2004, 04:37 AM: Message edited by: Firefly ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voodoochile Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 LOL! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Gallear Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Not so mad real tricks which could be included. The British employed a Magician to do camoflage for them - he did dummy tanks and guns which were put out in the desert and the Germans put real troops to oppose them! He also camoflaged tanks as trucks as the Germans were ambushing British supply columns - that one came as a nasty surprise. (This could be part of the engine - British tanks look like those grey trucks until they open fire! :cool: ) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 You people may then be interested in "Crafty Tricks of War" which is on Tuesday evenings on BBC2. A retired Colonel(?) and helper make all sorts of gadgets from the SOE archives. The exploding camel dung was on yesterday. To give an idea of what the programme is like, the actually made a cast of camel dung, fitted it with a smal pyrotechnic and drove a radio controled tank over it to set it off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted January 14, 2004 Author Share Posted January 14, 2004 That programme is probaly what the radio show was was taliking about (I missed the start of the item), as it was on BBC Radio 4. I mistakenly assumed it was an author plugging his book, as that's what most of the people on the show do . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__Yossarian0815[jby] Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Originally posted by Firefly: As I type this, I'm listening to a radio chat show where an author is talking about his book on the activities of mad boffins in WW2. It appears that German tankers in N. Africa, believed that driving through piles of camel dung was lucky and the British started producing fake, booby trapped, camel dung in response. Naturally this resulted in the Germans being more circumspect with regard to camel droppings, so the British went one better - fake, booby-tapped camel dung with tire tracks through it! I can't find any of this stuff in the CMAK purchase screen. BFC fix or sumfink! hehe, i just read about this in " n army at dawn", but i think the author claimed that the explosive turds were an amercan invention. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Köhler Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 So what did they feed the camels to get this rather unexpected effect? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefly Posted January 14, 2004 Author Share Posted January 14, 2004 Originally posted by Jussi Köhler: So what did they feed the camels to get this rather unexpected effect? Molten TNT I believe. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jussi Köhler Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Originally posted by Firefly: Molten TNT I believe. Does that make MasterGoodale a poo-flinger? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Originally posted by Mark Gallear: The British employed a Magician to do camoflage for them - he did dummy tanks and guns which were put out in the desert and the Germans put real troops to oppose them!He also moved the Suez Canal so the German bombers would drop their mines in the desert. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flamingknives Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 I was sure that was something to do with seach lights and disco balls 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gautrek Posted January 14, 2004 Share Posted January 14, 2004 Originally posted by flamingknives: I was sure that was something to do with seach lights and disco balls It was as i have just watched the program. And it worked fairly well. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted January 15, 2004 Share Posted January 15, 2004 Making fake camels is pretty straightforward. Getting them to crap TNT is kind of tricky. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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