National WWII Museum honors Veterans Day

Is it just Christmas tinsel, or a critical piece of WWII defense technology? The answer is a little of both. While you hang glittering tinsel on your tree, consider its lesser-known, ingenious relative: Chaff. These tiny, specialized strips of metallic fiber were a sophisticated countermeasure developed during World War II. Pilots would deploy a cloud of "chaff" (or "windows," as the British called it) to confuse enemy radar, making a single aircraft appear as an entire fleet. This allowed our w