Simply Looking for Jack

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On the western front, French soldiers observed a horse breaking free of it’s handlers and making a dash toward the German trench. The horse was shot. The French realized that a horse’s body was just large enough to provide a hiding place for a man, so they ordered a papier-mache horse corpse to be built. This tactic was employed several times along the Western front.

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   The French thought: ‘Hey - we could eat that one and leave a decoy!’ “And we could use it as shelter, right?” ‘Yeah I...

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