Japanese Forces

Baiting the enemy

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The Japanese painted a decoy B-29 with a 300-foot wingspread, so scaled that it appears to be flying at several thousand feet, on the Tien Ho airfield in China on March 9, 1945. From a great altitude the decoy gives the illusion of a B-29 in flight with flames streaming from its port inboard engine. The Japanese figured other planes would drop down to investigate and become targets for heavy concentration of flak. taken from fb/Philippe Lambert