Hitler Laughed at America’s Fake Tanks — Until He Realized They Were Part of a Trap

Описание: April 22nd, 1944. A field outside Dover, England.
Luftwaffe reconnaissance pilot Oberleutnant Klaus Hartmann banked his Messerschmitt Bf 109 over the white cliffs, camera mounted beneath the fuselage clicking rapidly. Below him stretched row after row of American Sherman tanks, their olive drab hulls arranged in precise formation. Artillery pieces sat covered by camouflage netting. Transport trucks filled makeshift motor pools. The build-up was unmistakable—an entire armored division preparing for invasion.
Hartmann circled once more, noting the details. Fuel depots. Command tents. Radio antennas. Everything indicated the Americans were massing forces for an assault directly across the narrowest point of the Channel—exactly where the Führer predicted.
But something caught his eye as sunlight shifted. One tank cast no shadow. Another seemed to ripple in the wind. Through his gun sight, Hartmann squinted at the nearest Sherman. The treads looked wrong—too smooth, almost fabric-like. The turret appeared to sag slightly, as if deflated.
Within hours, his photographs would reach Wehrmacht intelligence headquarters, confirming Hitler's conviction that the invasion would strike Pas-de-Calais. German Panzer divisions would remain positioned there for weeks, waiting for an American army that didn't exist.

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