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This declassified WWII report offers a detailed look at the Allied campaign to deceive the Nazis about the immanent attack on Normandy.
As the conflict in Europe wore on, the Germans braced for an amphibious assault on France. The only question was where and when the Allies would strike. This required an intricate misinformation campaign to throw the Nazis off the scent.
The objective of Operation Fortitude was to persuade the enemy that the long-awaited landings would take place in the Pas-de-Calais, and that any attack in Normandy would be nothing more than a diversionary feint that could be safely ignored. Hundreds of bogus agent reports were manufactured, an entire US Army Group was invented, false radio signals transmitted, and inflatable tanks, dummy bombers built of balsa wood and canvas landing craft were positioned where they could be photographed by the Luftwaffe.
The elaborate ruse suggested an imminent amphibious assault from Dover, across the shortest stretch of the English Channel. Operation Fortitude was an extraordinary success. In this volume, the classified official history of the entire operation, written by Roger Hesketh as head of the team of D-Day deception specialists, has been declassified and released.
As the conflict in Europe wore on, the Germans braced for an amphibious assault on France. The only question was where and when the Allies would strike. This required an intricate misinformation campaign to throw the Nazis off the scent.
The objective of Operation Fortitude was to persuade the enemy that the long-awaited landings would take place in the Pas-de-Calais, and that any attack in Normandy would be nothing more than a diversionary feint that could be safely ignored. Hundreds of bogus agent reports were manufactured, an entire US Army Group was invented, false radio signals transmitted, and inflatable tanks, dummy bombers built of balsa wood and canvas landing craft were positioned where they could be photographed by the Luftwaffe.
The elaborate ruse suggested an imminent amphibious assault from Dover, across the shortest stretch of the English Channel. Operation Fortitude was an extraordinary success. In this volume, the classified official history of the entire operation, written by Roger Hesketh as head of the team of D-Day deception specialists, has been declassified and released.
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Military & Maritime HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Illustrations, Maps and Charts
- Introduction by Nigel West
- Foreword
- Preface
- Translation
- I Early Planning
- II Appendix Y
- III BODYGUARD and FORTITUDE
- IV Organisation and Technical Resources
- V The Double-Cross Agents
- VI First Steps
- VII FORTITUDE NORTH
- VIII FORTITUDE NORTH (Continued)
- IX The Camouflage Policy Reversed
- X The Joint Commanders’ Plan
- XI The Move to Concentration
- XII Subsidiary Threats
- XIII The ARTIST Crisis
- XIV Physical Deception and the Invasion
- XV BRUTUS Joins FUSAG
- XVI GARBO and the Invasion (I)
- XVII GARBO and the Invasion (II)
- XVIII FORTITUDE NORTH Continued and Ended
- XIX Reactions to BODYGUARD and FORTITUDE NORTH
- XX The German View, Spring 1944
- XXI The Influence of FORTITUDE SOUTH
- XXII German Opinion in May
- XXIII The Invasion through Enemy Eyes
- XXIV Removal of Security Restrictions
- XXV TWEEZER
- XXVI German Reactions in June
- XXVII The New Plan
- XXVIII The Departing Formations
- XXIX FORTITUDE SOUTH II Executed
- XXX Developments in August
- XXXI FORTITUDE Ended
- XXXII Arnhem
- XXXIII The Control of Deception Overseas
- XXXIV The End of FUSAG
- XXXV TROLLEYCAR and the Move to Yorkshire
- XXXVI The Closing Scene
- XXXVII The Agents Take Their Leave
- XXXVIII Conclusion
- APPENDICES:
- Index