Date: 2025-03-13 Page is: DBtxt003.php txt00024780
WARTIME
NEED FOR SECRECY
What has changed from WWII until now ... Does social media help or hinder? What wins? Information of Disinformation? ... TPB opinion
NEED FOR SECRECY
What has changed from WWII until now ... Does social media help or hinder? What wins? Information of Disinformation? ... TPB opinion
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
I am very mindful of the need for secrecy during a period of war.
I have rather blurred memories of my own experience as a very young child living in the outskirts of London during WWII. Communications technology was rather different, but to the extent possible the Allies and the Axis Powers used everything that was available to gather intelligence and to spread misinformation.
I very much remember the phrase 'Loose Lips Sink Ships'.
We could not use our car during the war because there was no petrol available for civilian use so, as a family, we road bikes at the weekend to visit friends. I travelled in a basket attached to my father's bike. I still remember riding through the woods near Aldershot just before D-Day where miles and miles of military vehicles were hidden under the trees where they could not be seem by German reconnaissance aircraft. Decoy military equipment was deployed several hundred miles from Aldershot and the South Coast in East Anglia where it could be photographed by the Germans and hopefully divert their attention.
Peter Burgess
