RE: Re[2]: [WW] Poster

["Mario Lee Bansen III" <LeeBansen@deadlands.com>]

I have to say...I am quite happily surprised to find out that many of you on
this listserv know your WWII stuff! Most of our PEG Posse are History
(especially wars and weapons) buffs. Hopler and Shane rule in Trivia games.
My hat is off to all you knowledgable folks on this listserv!

Lee

Mario Lee Bansen III		Pinnacle Entertainment Group, Inc.
Vice President		      PO Box 10908
leebansen@deadlands.com	      Blacksburg, VA 24062-0908
ICQ#99630029			T (540) 381-8480
www.peginc.com                F (540) 381-7797

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-weirdwars@gamerz.net [mailto:owner-weirdwars@gamerz.net]On
> Behalf Of Soothsprayer
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 11:13 AM
> To: weirdwars@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [WW] Poster
>
>
> > It would be Werwolf Korps.
> >
> > But, just wondering, wouldn't that be a way to large
> > unit designator
> > for any "specialized" unit?
> >
>
> Think of it this way - disinformation. The Korp may in
> fact actually be the size of a company but by
> misleading the Allies into thinking it's far larger
> they could strike a telling blow to morale. Would you
> rather think there were only a 100 of these creatures
> or a 1000?
>
> Patton was in command of an entire false army for a
> while in 1944. The idea being to mislead the Germans
> into thinking preparations were on-going for invasion
> in a place far different to where the action was
> really going on.
>
> It's also a common practice to use false unit
> designations and communications traffic when in the
> field to mislead the enemy as to where any unit may
> actually be at any given time.
>
> The armband may be designed to be left on the
> battlefield as "evidence," or may be designed to be
> seen by a battlefield survivor. "Tell them what you
> saw today, tell them who we are!" Sort of thing.
>
> Cheers,
> Mr. B
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail
> http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
>
>
> To unsubscribe, send a message to esquire@gamerz.net with
> 	unsubscribe weirdwars
> as the BODY of the message.  The SUBJECT is ignored.
>
>