neverforget Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 Is it Daniel Van Voorhis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 Is it Daniel Van Voorhis? Sorry NF, no. You have missed the point of my clue. Here is another: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 Who's this inventive chap ? ? ? Clue - Patton's First Army Group in the Second war. Is that a truthful clue? I can't help but feel there is some deception involved here..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 Is that a truthful clue? I can't help but feel there is some deception involved here..... WSC: "In wartime, Truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 I believe a chap called Lt Col. Soloman of the Royal Engineers came up with the tank camouflage scheme in 1916; or is this a wider deception question? Maybe I'm talking complete FUSAGs. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 I believe a chap called Lt Col. Soloman of the Royal Engineers came up with the tank camouflage scheme in 1916; or is this a wider deception question? Maybe I'm talking complete FUSAGs. Pete. This chap was to do with a deception: but it was on a vast scale. Or was it?* *Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 It can't be this man, but a Great War equivalent perhaps ?? Jasper Maskelyne (1902–1973) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Maskelyne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 Is it one of the Maskelyne family? Edit: Dai Bach just beat me! Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 It can't be this man, but a Great War equivalent perhaps ?? Jasper Maskelyne (19021973) Is it one of the Maskelyne family? Edit: Dai Bach just beat me! Ron No. The deception this man was involved in was on a way bigger scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 Operation Starfish??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 Operation Starfish??? No - a GW example of a Starfish site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 Just been looking into starfish sites, and found that they were previously thought of in WW1 to lure German bombers away from Paris. Could your chap be Fernand Jacopozzi? as mentioned here: http://www.tehfalloutshelter.com/archive/index.php/t-18748.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 Well done NF. Yes. Googling his name produces a copy of the picture in post 3003. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Bach y Sowldiwr Posted 22 July , 2015 Share Posted 22 July , 2015 Could your chap be Fernand Jacopozzi? as mentioned here: http://www.tehfalloutshelter.com/archive/index.php/t-18748.html Agreed. Well done NF. (Although as in the National Lottery draw, we must wait for the result to be confirmed officially). That was a very good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 23 July , 2015 Share Posted 23 July , 2015 Very illuminating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 July , 2015 Share Posted 23 July , 2015 Yes indeed. http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2011/09/a-paris-made-to-be-destroyed-sham-paris-191718-1.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8879053/Second-Paris-built-towards-end-of-First-World-War-to-fool-Germans.html http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernand_Jacopozzi&prev=search Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 23 July , 2015 Share Posted 23 July , 2015 This man was involved in one of the celebrated deception operations of the War. Who is he ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 24 July , 2015 Share Posted 24 July , 2015 I'm sure I've come across this fellow before, but infuriatingly, can't think where, and stuck at work unable to search. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 24 July , 2015 Share Posted 24 July , 2015 OK - here's another photograph. The genesis of the deception operation to which I refer is often credited to that inventive, extraordinary man - Winston Churchill. It has nothing to do with the tank. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 24 July , 2015 Share Posted 24 July , 2015 Could it be Francis Wyatt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 24 July , 2015 Share Posted 24 July , 2015 Could it be Francis Wyatt? It could not. This chap has featured in the thread 'Unusually Named People of the Great War'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodB Posted 26 July , 2015 Share Posted 26 July , 2015 Bernard Freyberg, the Bulair one-man invasion ? First photo in Governor-General mode ? Here he is appearing I assume like he did in the deception operation, although I assume he would have blackened his skin to avoid detection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 26 July , 2015 Share Posted 26 July , 2015 The photo in post 3022 is of a vice-admiral. That rules out Freyberg. It is in fact Hedworth Meux. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 July , 2015 Share Posted 26 July , 2015 Bernard Freyberg, the Bulair one-man invasion ? No, not him. Bloody good guess though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle George Posted 26 July , 2015 Share Posted 26 July , 2015 The photo in post 3022 is of a vice-admiral. That rules out Freyberg. It is in fact Hedworth Meux. Ron Yes indeed. http://www.dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA425342 My Uncle Fred (in fact my Great Uncle, Frederick Moore) worked on the Q-Ships at Devonport Dockyard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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