I was just about to say the same thing. Actually the US army in ‘40 and early ‘41 too. On the Realtime thread we saw pictures of them using fake guns in exercises down in LA. Fake Anti tank guns, jeeps in place of real tanks, etc.
What a coincidence. Pelosi, Waters, Hillary, and other democrat “ladies” have been looking for their brooms lately.
After the end of WW2, US military intelligence interviewed captured Japanese Generals, and asked them how they thought they could defeat the United States. A number of them explained that they saw the American newsreel from 1940-1941 showing the US Amy practicing with wooden guns. Their overall impression was that it will be a “piece of cake”, as a “real military” would never use fake weapons. Pictures send a giant message.