Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-06-08 12:48:52 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: CC6D13D2BDB668CEC4CB77F12E5496C156EC833848CE96876EDF3C3D2970A147
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Original Note:
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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