Operation Bodyguard
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Operation Bodyguard was a World War II deception strategy employed by the Allied states before the 1944 invasion of northwest Europe. Bodyguard set out an overall stratagem for misleading the Oberkomm
Allied leaders Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill at the Tehran Conference
German troop dispositions in France, June 1944
Memorandum on Bodyguard prepared for SHAEF in February 1944
Inflatable tanks were used during Operation Fortitude, one of the three major operations making up Bodyguard
Operation Fortitude
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Operation Fortitude was a military deception operation by the Allied nations as part of Operation Bodyguard, an overall deception strategy during the buildup to the 1944 Normandy landings. Fortitude w
Operation Bodyguard
…operation to support. Deception planners in England and Cairo developed a number of operational implementations (of which the most significant was Operation Fortitude which developed a threat to Pas-de-Calais). In June 1944 the Allied forces successfully landed and established a beachhead in Normandy. Later evidence…
Juan Pujol Garcia, or agent Garbo, was a key part of the Fortitude deception
Dummy landing craft, used during Fortitude, at an unknown location in the South-East of England
Edinburgh Castle, the headquarters of the fictional British Fourth Army during Operation Fortitude