Dumb War Tactics That Actually Worked (pt 2)

here are five more dumb War tactics that actually worked number one spooky ghost noises it's the Vietnam War and as you might know things weren't going as planned for the US Army though militarily outmatched in almost every way the Viet Kong soldiers always seemed to have the upper hand the psychological torture of booby traps everywhere and never knowing when the enemy would pop out from an underground tunnel took a heavy toll on the mental health of American soldiers so in desperation they came up with their own version of psychological warfare called operation wandering Soul which

surprisingly worked but maybe not in the way they intended see in Vietnam there's a belief that the dead must be buried in their Homeland to ensure their souls would make it safely to the afterlife The Souls of those who died away from home would be left to wander aimlessly in pain and suffering like a teenager whose parents took away their phone for a week when the US Army learned of this they went to work creating audio recordings of wouldbe Viet Kong spirits who are wandering the jungle battlefields forever the thinking was that at worst these

recordings would demoralize their enemy and at best they would actually convince the Viet Kong that they were surrounded by the dead Souls of their fellow soldiers and make them run home now obviously if Americans recorded these ghost voices it might have been a little hard to believe uh Toy Chet Roy vady uh tuu mind so they got some of their South Vietnamese allies to record the lines to bump up the authenticity the these recordings had spooky Buddhist funeral music in the background and ghosts saying things like my body is gone I'm dead go home my

friends before it's too late I came back to let you know I am dead I am dead when the recordings were ready the soldiers took them out into the jungle and would then play them at night from the loudspeakers mounted to helicopters and boats leaving the Viet Kongs confused and thinking what ghosts know how to fly helicopters now now I know what you're probably thinking this does sound pretty dumb but if you think you could come up with a better strategy then you should check out the sponsor of today's video World of Tanks World of

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operation wandering Soul did actually manage to Spook some Vietnamese soldiers but ironically it was the US's South Vietnamese allies that got freaked out and wanted to go home not the Viet Kong number two dead guy fools Nazis on the morning of April 30th 1943 the body of A well-dressed military officer was discovered by a fisherman off the coast of southern Spain judging by his appearance he must be someone very important and the body was quickly brought into the authorities the Spanish officials confirmed the corpse and discovered that this was the body of major William Martin

a British officer with the Royal Marines who appeared to have drowned near the Spanish coast along with his body Martin's briefcase was also recovered which contained top secret information that suggested that the Allies were planning an amphibious assault on Greece a critical Access Control territory Nazi sympathizers within the Spanish government sent this information back to Germany meanwhile encrypted messages were being sent from the British to their informant in Spain desperately asking them to recover these documents these codes were broken by the Germans and the axis quickly moved troops planes and submarines from Sicily to beef

up their defenses in Greece and the Balkans the soldiers there were put on high alert in preparation for the expected Invasion so imagine their surprise when the Allies ignored Greece and invaded sicy instead what you see major William Martin wasn't carrying top secret documents like the Germans imagined he wasn't even actually a soldier in reality he was a homeless Welshman named glendwood Michael whose expertise was limited to little more than Pub crawls across England Michael was the key piece in operation minc meat a British plan to use a dead body to purposefully leak false information

to the Germans and convince them that their Invasion Target was Greece as they secretly prepared for an invasion of Sicily Against All Odds it actually worked Sicily was taken in just 8 Days showing how completely off guard the offenders were every detail had been carefully planned in advance from the fake encrypted messages they knew would be broken by the Germans to creating a fake girlfriend for William Martin and even finding a body that appeared to have recently died of drowning this was in fact why Glend dur Michael was chosen as his actual cause of death

was due to eating rat poison which filled his lungs with fluid to think the hero of the invasion of Sicily was a dead homeless man is pretty wild but what's even crazier is that glendor Michaels's real identity was not uncovered in until 1996 more than 5050 years after the war ended his tombstone in Spain to this day still says William Martin number three fake cannons in the American Revolutionary War the world watched as a ragtag colonial militia went up against the most powerful military in the world and Against All Odds the American colonists won their

independence from Great Britain thanks to their Innovative tactics brilliant leaders and the time-honored American tradition of Faking it till you make it but in this case faking it in the most literal sense see in December of 1780 Colonel William Washington not to be confused with his more famous second cousin George had surrounded a loyalist Force who had HED up at the home of Colonel Roland rley in South Carolina the Loyalists had fortified the home and Barn in preparation for the inevitable fight that was to come both Washington and rou Ley were commanding armies of roughly

the same size estimated to be somewhere around 120 men however Washington knew that if he attempted a full frontal assault his men would probably be nothing more than target practice for the Loyalists and be gunned down before even getting close to the homestead so instead he ordered his men to begin secretly cutting down nearby pine trees out of sight of the Loyalists he then had his men paint the pine logs black and position them to look like cannons pointing towards rou ley's home they called this cannon that could never kill anyone a Quaker gun after

the ultra religious Quakers who did not participate in war once his men had Quaker guns surrounding the fort from all directions Washington called out to rley demanding he surrender or prepare to get his [ __ ] wrecked rou Ley looked out and nearly pooped his pants when he saw what appeared to be cannons pointing in his direction from nearly every angle he immediately surrendered and Washington took the fort without a single shot fired word of Washington winning a battle using nothing but logs as artillery quickly spread and the Quaker gun went on to be used

extensively by both the North and South during the American Civil War can you imagine a battle where both sides were using them all right Yankees give it up but you're get what's coming from this here totally real Cannon no you better give it up or we'll start shooting these cannons your way oh you done did it I'm loading this cannon right now you're going to be so sorry not if I load mine first okay you shoot first and you'll get what's coming now you shoot first and you'll be sorry oh you done did it number

four attacking a submarine with potatoes April 5th 1943 World War II is at its peak and the Pacific Ocean is the stage for some of the fiercest Naval battles in history an American Destroyer named the USS obannon is returning from a night shelling raid in the Solomon Islands when their radar picks up a signal it's a Japanese submarine and the crew of the oanon quickly spring into action the captain decides to Ram the sub and tear it in half but surprisingly as they approached the Japanese sub made no effort to move as their ship leapt

over waves getting closer and closer to the sub the crew on the oanon grew increasingly concerned uh sir why isn't the submarine running away oh it dawned on the captain that this could potentially be a m laying sub and they just fell right into its trap at the last possible moment the captain managed to turn the ship and avoid a direct collision and suddenly the oanon found itself parked right next to the Japanese sub the crew looked out on the enemy vessel and saw its men were fast asleep on the deck of the submarine were

being the key word here as unsurprisingly the Japanese woke up to the sound of a giant US Destroyer pulling up right next to them and started freaking out seeing this as their chance the oanon commander grinned and orders the main cannons to start firing just one problem their ship was now so close to the enemy sub that it could not Point its turrets low enough to hit it the Japanese on the other hand did have a 3-in deck gun that would punch some nice clean holes into the oanon and her men if fired from this

close of a distance the Americans watched in horror as the Japanese Sailors rushed towards their deck guns and began panicking looking for anything they could use to stop stop them frantically searching around the deck all they found was a storage bin of potatoes in desperation the Americans began pelting the Japanese Sailors with these potatoes as a last ditch effort to save their ship as the saying goes don't bring a potato to a gunfight and all hope seemed lost for the Americans until the Japanese started picking up the potatoes and throwing them back at them see

in the darkness and pumped up on adrenaline the Japanese mistook the potatoes for grenades an allout potato melee erupted with with the American Sailors trying to hit the Japanese with their potatoes and the Japanese rushing around to pick them up to throw back at the Americans or into the ocean far away from their sub all the while the threein deck guns went unmanned this potato assault bought the oand in the time it needed to distance itself and unleash its cannons which scored a hit on the submarine before it dived back under the water as the

sub tried to flee under the oanon the Americans let loose death charges which ultimately sank the Japanese sub the battle was commemorated with an official plaque awarded to the USS oanon and its crew from the association of potato Growers of Maine which is a sentence that doesn't even make sense but it's true number five catapulting dead bodies okay this one is crazy because not only did it kind of work but this might have been the actual reason the bubanic plague made it to Europe the year was 1347 and the con of the golden horde Johnny

beg was having a rather rough time ruling his Empire in particular a trading Port called kafa which sat on the Crimean Peninsula was being a pain in the ass see this port Town while technically in Golden horde territory was owned and populated by the Empire of Genoa you don't hear about these guys too much these days but they were a medieval European superpower based on the Italian Peninsula that had trading outposts all throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea by this time the golden horde though descendants of the great Mongol conqueror genghiskhan were barely Mongolian and

had converted to Islam as it was the dominant religion in the area and Johnny beg well he had a let's just say strong distaste for Christianity which led him to wanting to kick those pesky Jesus loving Italians in kafa out of his Turf Johnny Bag attempted a first Siege of kafa in 1343 but was forced to retreat a year later when Italian reinforcements arrived from Western Europe and slaughtered 15,000 of his men and broke all of his Siege machines but old Johnny still had a bit of Mongolian ruthlessness left in him so he came back

in 1345 with a larger force and caught off all trade routes to the city starting a proper Siege the citizens of kafa suffered for 2 years with little food and supplies all hope seemed lost for the genoes until like an active God Johnny beg's forces began dying from a mysterious illness safe inside their City walls they watched this strange disease quickly spread throughout the army of the golden horde this disease as you may have guessed by now was in fact the Bubonic plague with his army decimated by the Black Death Johnny beg called off the

siege of kafa and its citizens began celebrating until dead rotting corpses began falling from the sky all around them as a final middle finger to the coffa Johnny Bag had ordered his men to load their catapults with the rotting bodies of soldiers that had died of the plague and fire them into the city walls the citizens of kafa tried to dump the bodies into the ocean as quickly as they could but it was too late the pus filled bodies splattered as they landed and infected blood and bodily fluid sprayed everywhere the plague quickly spread through

the city killing a large portion of its population a few ships attempted to escape death and disease and sailed from kafa back to the old world and and upon arrival at European ports most of these passengers were dead or nearly dead and covered in boils the Black Death then proceeded to kill half of Europe over the following years Not only was this one of the first documented cases of biological warfare in human history the ships fleeing coffa with infected citizens may have been the way the Black Death made its way to Europe crazy stuff thank

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