The second update of the day

The use of camouflage set techniques for military purposes in film making was not uncommon in later generations. When the US-led NATO bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, it bombed the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia for several months in a row, claiming to have destroyed thousands of tanks, but when the war ended and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia could not bear the pressure and was forced to withdraw, NATO discovered that most of the so-called targets destroyed by the NATO were movie props.

During World War II, Germany set up a V2 rocket base in the Netherlands and fired V rockets at London several times. In order to destroy this base, the British and American air forces bombed more than a dozen times and paid great losses, but the base could not be destroyed. It was not until the Normandy landings and the Allied occupation of the base that the British and American ground forces discovered that the original base had been destroyed by bombing a long time ago, and that the repeated bombing by the Allied air force was nothing more than a false target for reconstruction. It was also a very successful tactical deception of the camouflage force in the real history of World War II.

Similar tactics of using camouflage sets to deceive the Allies have also been used, such as the famous disguised layout of the Allied forces in British ports before the famous Normandy landings, which succeeded in fooling Germany into believing that it was going to land in Calais.

In Lin Han and Hannah, the two traversers, registered a factory film and television company in the United States, in addition to making money, another purpose is to recruit talents who are good at camouflage sets in the name of making movies.

In the years leading up to the war in 1939, the Dream Gongchang Company had accumulated a great deal of experience in camouflage sets while filming many war films, which was later successfully used in China's intervention wars.

At that time, the People's Liberation Army built a large number of fake forts in the area of the Yangtze River estuary, which were mixed with real forts, and played an important role in preventing the British and Japanese forces from clearing mines and breaking through the Yangtze River waterway. In the early stage of the Battle of Xuzhou, a large number of fake airports and fake planes built in the area of Hangzhou Bay also deceived a large number of planes of the British Air Force into carrying out many ineffective bombardments. At that time, the large number of reports of the destruction of aircraft on enemy airfields obtained by Dowding were almost all fake planes made of props. And at that time it was still called the Red Army. These camouflaged planes, in conjunction with anti-aircraft artillery fire in ambush nearby, shot down many of the attacking planes.

As early as 1938, prop set designers in the film and television industry in the United States received a problem: how to disguise a cargo ship as a battleship.

At that time, this subject was given to the props staff to find a way in the name of filming a movie about the Battle of Jutland. After receiving this topic, the elites of the props industry in the American film and television industry racked their brains and came up with many extremely effective missing ideas. Later, this "deceptive creative" movie was aborted due to an "accident" and was not filmed. But those creative ideas were unceremoniously retained by the Germans.

Several German camouflaged assault ships, which are now active in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, are also derivatives of this idea. Before the war, Germany used the diesel engines that had been eliminated from the second and third ships of the "Deutschland" class pocket battleships as the power system to build two training ships, the Tannenberg and the Wolfsburg, which were designed from the very beginning in accordance with the idea of camouflaging a sneak attack ship, not only the position of the chimney and bridge on the ship could be changed, but even the bow of the ship could be lightly "deformed and modified". Today, a total of six German camouflaged raid ships are operating in various places across the three oceans, tossing the shipping industry of the British Empire to death.

While the Scharnhorst returned to Kiel, Germany, for repair and maintenance. A 20,000-ton cruise ship is also being converted at another shipyard in Germany. Prop masters from the film industry cooperated with the shipyard workers to first dismantle all the superstructures on the ship, and then rebuilt the superstructure of the cruise ship with the props that had been prepared in advance.

Interestingly, the name of this cruise ship is also "Scharnhorst", and what is more interesting is that in history, this cruise ship originally stayed in Japan due to the outbreak of World War II, and was later purchased and converted into an aircraft carrier by Japan. Named "Condor".

On board the eponymous cruise ship, shipyard workers are under the guidance of magicians who are props for the film. Using inflatable rubber and wooden planks to piece together the battleship's bridge, chimney and even three triple turrets, the Scharnhorst cruise ship was finally successfully "transformed" into the Scharnhorst battleship.

This kind of camouflaged battleship, if you look closely, of course, you can see through it at a glance. But when you look at it from a distance of more than ten kilometers, it is difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.

After camouflaging. The "cruise ship", named the Scharnhorst, no, a battleship, was pulled to a remote anchor in the port of Kiel and stayed there, while outsiders were forbidden to enter its vicinity for more than ten kilometers.

Foreign. The Germans claimed that the warship was a battleship "repaired" and restored to combat effectiveness, but in the eyes of the British, it was the Gneisenau in the form of the battleship Scharnhorst. The Germans didn't let people get close, they just wanted to cover up.

In order to cooperate with this camouflage and deception operation, the shipyard workers who participated in the maintenance of the battleship Scharnhorst, except for a few who were deliberately released to go home and deliberately spread the false news that the ship was still being repaired, the rest of the workers were temporarily detained in the shipyard and were not allowed to return home. In order to appease the workers, the authorities gave them large and generous bonuses.

After the successful surprise attack on Oslo, the British, who had regained some of their confidence, had the idea of occupying half of Norway and continuing to blockade the North Sea to block the German navy's access to the Atlantic. In the past 20 days, nearly three divisions and dozens of tanks have been added to the port of Narvik, totaling nearly 30,000 people.

The port of Narvik, which the Germans deliberately did not eat, is now "raised" to be fat enough to be eaten. So the Scharnhorst, which had just been repaired, quietly left the dock late at night on the 21st and set out at the same time as the Gneisenau.

According to the plan, the German navy made a gesture of cutting off the port of Narvik from the British mainland by sea through the Guò sea route, and then attacked Narvik from the sea, completely annihilating the British troops who landed in Narvik.

However, the encirclement and annihilation of the British troops landing in Narvik was only an incidental purpose, and the real goal of the German navy was to lure out the British home fleet in Scapa Bay for a decisive battle.

In order to rescue the British troops trapped in the port of Narvik, the Royal Navy had to go out again, and then engage the German ships in extremely unfavorable circumstances.

It is estimated that the Nelson and the Royal Oak, which were wounded in the Battle of Bergen, are now almost complete. But even if six battleships came out together, bullying its slow speed, poor night combat ability, and insufficient aircraft carriers, Hannah and Lin Han joined forces and were confident that they would win the battle.

The camouflage ships deployed in the port of Kiel were only intended to deceive the British for a few more days before the decisive battle, making the launch of the Battle of Narvik even more sudden.

In addition, the German cruise ship of the same name, the Scharnhorst, was originally planned to be converted into an escort aircraft carrier to join the German Navy in future military operations. The removal of the superstructure on the ship for camouflage transformation is also just a follow-up to the trend. After the camouflage task is completed, it will be pulled back to the shipyard to continue the transformation of the aircraft carrier.

The Schahn sisters left the port of Kiel late at night on 21 February and sailed through the Kattegat Strait between Denmark and Norway in the early hours of 23 February, accompanied by almost all the capital ships of the German Navy. The three escort carriers, which had largely played no role in the Norwegian campaign, had arrived in the port of Oslo the day before, leaving the port to join the division as they crossed the Kattegat Strait.

The seemingly large task force then crossed Bergen and headed north, aiming for the port of Narvik in northern Norway.

This large task force had two battleships, two pocket battleships, twelve light cruisers, thirty destroyers, forty torpedo boats, three escort carriers, and several supply ships following the side.

The scale of the German Navy's sorties in this battle even exceeded the surprise attack on Oslo not long ago.

At noon on the 23rd, No. 10 Downing Street received an urgent report from the front that a large number of German warships had entered Norway, and in the evening it was confirmed that there were aircraft carriers and battleships mixed in.

For a time, the whole British island was jumping, and the German ships were again in full force, and the nerves of the whole of Britain were raised again.

Out of personal taste, Lin Han named the attack on the port of Narvik "Shooting the Sun", which alludes to the fact that the empire will never set in the dust after the war.

According to Linhan and Hannah's assumptions, if the naval battle of Narvik could achieve its strategic objectives, the German navy would again inflict heavy losses on the British navy. Even if the Americans generously sold all the old battleships in stock to the British, the Royal Navy would not have to be afraid.

Because it is not enough to have a ship, there are also people, and a large number of experienced and well-coordinated sailors who have been trained for a long time.

From the Battle of Norway to the Battle of Bergen, the Royal Navy suffered heavy losses on its warships, but it was not a "pity" that most of the old ships were sunk. What is really difficult to replenish is the more than 25,000 sailors who sank with the ship, which is a huge loss that cannot be replenished in a short time. Just like airplanes, warships can be rebuilt through factories when they are sunk, but excellent and qualified sailors and sailors are actually as difficult to train as pilots, and they cannot be replenished in the short term.

The German General Staff even had the illusion that if the Battle of Narvik could be won again, the Germans would very likely force the British out of the war - of course, knowing the trend of history and knowing that the British and American elites were pure on the idea of fighting Germany to the end, neither Lin Han nor Hannah would have such naïve illusions.

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