Today in History

During World War II in Europe, the Royal Air Force conducted Operation Gomorrah, raiding Hamburg, while tossing bales of aluminum foil strips overboard to cause German radar screens to see a blizzard of false echoes. As a result, only 12 of 791 Allied bombers were shot down. (Save your aluminum foil...you never know what you might be able to use it for!) Source: www.historyplace.com