The Plan to Paint Mount Fuji BlackHow WWII's weirdest psyop was defeated by the weather.
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It really happenedDiscover the bizarre, true story of a US military plan to demoralize Japan by dyeing its most sacred mountain. During the final stages of World War II, a psychological warfare unit proposed the audacious scheme as part of a strategy to weaken enemy resolve. Ultimately, this villain-esque plot wasn't foiled by counter-intelligence or military might, but by the mundane realities of snowfall and cloud cover, which would have rendered the whole effort pointless.
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