re: WWII Thread: Lesser known aircraft that you like

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said his dad had escaped German gunfire by dropping "aluminum strips" or something along those lines to confuse the German radar.

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Chaff, originally called Window[1] by the British, and Düppel by the Second World War era German Luftwaffe (from the Berlin suburb where it was first developed), is a radar countermeasure in which aircraft or other targets spread a cloud of small, thin pieces of aluminium, metallized glass fibre or plastic, which either appears as a cluster of primary targets on radar screens or swamps the screen with multiple returns.

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