Why RAF Crews Painted Garden Gnomes on Their Planes — And How It Drove the Germans Mad

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On the morning of March 14th, 1943, Luftvafa intelligence officers at Yea Airfield in northwestern Germany gathered around photographs pinned to a briefing board. The images taken by reconnaissance flights over England showed something that shouldn't have been there. Rows of RAF bombers with bright red garden gnomes painted on their noses, fuselage... Read More