Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign

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Автор: Roger Fleetwood Hesketh

Название: Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign

Издательство: Overlook Press

Год: 2000

Формат: PDF

Страниц: 550

Язык: English

Размер: 53.4 MB

Behind the astonishing success of D-Day was the most sophisticated deception scheme ever devised. The objective 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. Each itemed an imminent amphibious assault from Dover, across the shortest stretch of the English Channel. Operation Fortitude was an extraordinary success.