Dummy men

• by erik.schaubroeckscarlet.be

  What kind of experiment would that have been?

  Posted January 25, 2017 7:29 PM

• by messi0077

  Here's an Article about "The Dummy Men" From 2014.

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579642/Our-timber-Tommies-WWI-diaries-tell-dummy-troops-fooled-Germans.html

  Posted January 25, 2017 8:01 PM

• by marie.eklidvirginmedia.com

  Images for dummy heads ww1 – Dicussion about this on the Mess Hall Board quite a few months ago.

  https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=German+dummy+heads+ww1

  Posted January 25, 2017 9:14 PM

• by erik.schaubroeckscarlet.be

  I can see the usefulness of dummy soldiers in the trenches, but not of dummy soldiers jumping out a balloon with a parachute. Maybe will have to wait for this book to know it? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-one/11937199/Secrets-of-World-War-I-Papier-mache-heads-ponies-dressed-as-zebras-and-fluorescent-sea-lions.html

  Posted January 25, 2017 10:21 PM

• by ral104 moderator, scientist

  Interesting. Perhaps they were experimenting with the parachutes themselves - seeing how well they functioned with dummies before strapping them on themselves.

  Posted January 25, 2017 10:30 PM

• by erik.schaubroeckscarlet.be

  That could be it, but why doing this "secret" experiment in front of the enemy?

  Posted January 26, 2017 8:19 AM

• by ral104 moderator, scientist

  It doesn't say that it's secret, so I guess it wasn't particularly sensitive.

  Posted January 26, 2017 9:54 AM