Related to that: during WWII the US commissioned a fleet of inflatable decoy "tanks" https://ghostarmy.com/bio/f/Equipment/418 https://ghostarmy.com/bio/f/Equip

Related to that: during WWII the US commissioned a fleet of inflatable decoy "tanks" https://ghostarmy.com/bio/f/Equipment/418 https://ghostarmy.com/bio/f/Equipment/418. They were built by the Patten Company (no relation to George S. Patton, different spelling), and in the early 2000s I rebuilt the Patten Company's website. They have since removed that historical footnote from their site but you can probably find it on the Internet Archive.