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2023-06-08 12:36:15 UTC - MISINFORMED_OR_POTENTIALLY_MISLEADING

No evidence exists that this ever occurred, & historians are in agreement that it never actually happened. It is likely that this originated as a wartime era joke story, kept alive today on social media. Furthermore, the “wooden bomb” pictured is an aircraft float light https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wooden-bomb/ https://www.forces.net/heritage/history/did-allied-pilots-really-drop-fake-wooden-bombs-fake-wooden-decoy-airfields

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• No evidence exists that this ever occurred, & historians are in agreement that it never actually happened. It is likely that this originated as a wartime era joke story, kept alive today on social media. Furthermore, the “wooden bomb” pictured is an aircraft float light https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/wooden-bomb/ https://www.forces.net/heritage/history/did-allied-pilots-really-drop-fake-wooden-bombs-fake-wooden-decoy-airfields