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The Greatest Prank Ever Pulled

submitted by EDD

1 decade 4 years 1 month ago

One of the largest scale and most expensive pranks in human history was kept secret for 50 years. The perpetrators were a team of artists in the U.S. Army, and the victim was Hitler. And what they did was more ridiculous than anything the zaniest of movie fraternities could have come up with.
("A Military Prank Wins a World War", via Cracked.com)

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What the Germans thought was a 30,000-man armored battalion was in fact a thousand artists (mostly art students recruited for the task) wearing fake uniforms, sending out fictional battle reports over the radio (complete with a war sound effects record playing in the background) all while trying to keep their tanks from getting knocked over by the wind.

How convincing were they? Well, it's thought they saved up to 30,000 allied lives purely with the power of bullshit. Oh, and some German units even surrendered to them. Which must have been pretty humiliating when they were marched past an armored division they could have taken out with a sharp stick.

(http://www.cracked.com/article_18478_the-7-ballsiest-pranks-you-wont-believe-actually-worked_p2.html)

HBO| Miniseries Presents:

LOL

*art

Adding video to channels (Art) - requested by lucky760.

http://media.pegasusnews.com/pegasus/img/photos/2008/06/11/Jon-Lovitz-ACTING.jpg

Haha... "General, how can we use our nation's art students and fabulous future fashion designers for the war effort?"

Tags for this video have been changed from 'ghost army, world war 2, ww2, usa, camouflage, deception, dummies' to 'ghost army, world war 2, ww2, usa, camouflage, deception, dummies, hitler, punkd' - edited by calvados

Whoa.

Correction....The greatest prank ever pulled was when the Devil convinced the world he didn't exist.

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