Humpday Triviola
Dreary weather here in the foothills of Mount Level...but at least it's warm. On to the question:
Operation Overlord would probably have been a disaster had it not been for this use of plywood. What use?
Tom
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not sure where New Orleans got enough plywood, but they did!
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#3Overlord
Iļæ½m with Scott for putting New Orleans front and center, but there was some backdoor help from Waco which was quieter.
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#4PT Boats?
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#5WAG ..
Plywood could have played many parts, so this may be a bit of disceptive question; the qualities of the material generally don't include it's fortitude, but that may give us some insight into the solution here.
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Many of the landing craft were made of plywood as were the gliders used to land airborne troops inland from the beaches. But the most famous use in Operation Overlord was the construction of decoy staging areas meant to mislead the Germans into believing the invasion would occur in areas other then Normandy. Mock tanks, trucks, armament, and other equipmnet were constructed of plywood in areas of England far from the actual staging areas for the invasion. It apparently worked to a degree based on the placement of the defending German Divisions. Also the British had a fighter plane,named the Mosquito that was built of plywood. This is all from memories of accounts in newspapers and Newsreels when I was a young boy during WW II. So I don't fear a trip to the box,
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#7;-)
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#8Answer *LINK*
Scott gets the Golden Uni for being first in but Gary gets credit too. The answer I sought was Higgins Boat. Ken correctly points out other related uses of plywood for the D-Day invasion. The Higgins boat provided a bacon saving solution to the submerged German counter measures.
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Tom
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