Word: decoyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With counter-radar in full swing, a major raid on Europe became a complex business. Decoy planes dropped streamers of Window, filling the scopes of the Nazis' early-warning radars with swarms of imaginary bombers. From the cliffs of England, Tuba boomed its blasts, adding to the confusion. As the column of bombers swept toward Germany, Carpet cheeped from every plane, dazzling the Wurzburgs, while more puffs of glittering Window covered the sky with phantoms...
...week's end, SHAEF revealed that a double rode in General Eisenhower's four-starred automobile in France last winter. Lieut. Colonel Baldwin B. Smith of Chicago, who bears a striking resemblance to the Supreme Commander, volunteered as a decoy after Army Intelligence heard rumors of a German assassination plot...
...Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry during his first encounter with the enemy. Last May, near Cisterna de Littoria, he had knocked out two Nazi machine-gun nests singlehanded by killing four Germans (with five shots) and capturing seven more. Then he had repeatedly set himself up as a decoy target while his platoon surrounded an enemy strong point and captured 22 prisoners without suffering a casualty...
...Decoy. In Houston, nine women watched a policeman arrest another woman in the middle of a crowded street, rushed into the street to get a closer view, were all arrested, like the first, for jay walking...
...sniper and a British soldier. The British soldier is as stolid and unheady as a pint of bitter. The Nazi, who gets killed in spite of his telescope sight and his fancy camouflage, is smart and dangerous, but loses his nerve. The butcherlike utilization of his corpse as a decoy clinches the picture's simple lesson: killing is no contest between good and evil, admits of no valuations except those of craft and self-preservation...