WWII US Army HQ Camouflaged as a Pile of Rubbish

By Alex in Pictures, Weapons & War on Jan 26, 2009 at 11:51 am

Just a pile of rubbish? Would you believe that it’s actually a US Army HQ during World War II, disguised by architect Sir Basil Spence?

StrangeHarvest has a couple of interesting photos of such military deceptions from Masquerade: The amazing camouflage deceptions of World War II by Seymour Reit.

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(If you’re into this sort of things, definitely check out Jasper Maskelyne, a magician turned military camouflage genius who built fake tanks and even a fake city to trick German bombers during WWII)

Tags: Basil Spence, camouflage, World War II

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Gauldar
Jan 26th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Impressive. Love the inflatable truck.
mallory
Jan 26th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
What a smart idea. Very savvy.
Dan Smith
Jan 26th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
no one is as baller as daring innovators
Johnny Cat
Jan 26th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
I’d heard about the fake city before, but this is new to me. Thinking outside of the box definitely helped defeat the enemies then. It looks like the power lines are even going into the pile. Cool.
akhan246
Jan 27th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
Only one word for this: AWESOME!
Widgett Walls
Feb 3rd, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Didn’t the Hardy Boys have their HQ hidden in a trash dump as well? It’s been aeons since I read those books…

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