Radiomen on the B-24s kept changing their frequencies so that the Germans would have a hard time listening. Occasionally, they could pick up and get on the German frequency. On one of Cooper’s missions, a German-speaking radioman came along. Cooper listened as he went to work: “He got on the radio, on their frequency, and he heard a German commander talking to his fighter planes, directing them toward our formation. So the American, identifying himself in German as their ground control officer, ordered them, ‘Return to base, immediately.’ So these fighter planes took off to go back to base, and before their real commander could get it corrected, they were already gone, and couldn’t get back up there to us.” Cooper added to the story that he knew of at least one other native German speaker in the 455th Group who used that technique.
Source:
Ambrose, Stephen E. “The Tuskegee Airmen Fly Cover.” The Wild Blue: The Crews of the B-24. Simon & Schuster, 2002. 218. Print.
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If only this worked on warthunder.