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Originally Posted by WallShadow
And under the middle couple of rows of hastily-concealed soup plates, one real mine and several grenades with pins pulled, waiting for someone to lift the plate.... 
That'd keep them guessing, and slowed down. |
In real life...the engineers didn't even bother with bobby traps...they really did place a daisy chain of soup plates covered with dirt and then motored off...probably laughing their heads off!
There is another story of the engineers getting ready to blast a bridge, and waiting until a Panther was in the middle of the span before dropping the bridge and tank into the river.
Another has the engineers simply putting out several "Warning! Mines!" signs out, right like the ole guide book told them to....counting on the German engineers to have read the same book and waste time searching for mines.
The same engineer battalion tried the same trick later down the road, this time "marking" a safety line with engineer tape...you guessed it, the only mines were in the safety line....damn engineers!