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As part of the deception attack at Pas de De Calais on D-Day dummy paratropers were dropped to add to the effect.
Patton had led a dummy army with wooden airplanes and balloon tanks on the ground.
The American Navy code breakers at Pearl Harbor had broken enough of the Japanese Naval codes to know there was an invasion cumming, but they had no way to figure out what the target code name referred to. They had Midway island transmit without encryption that their salt water desalinators were broken.
The code breakers interspersed a Japaneses transmission that said the code name's desalinators were broken and thus the Battle Of Midway was on.
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall at Ukrainian intelligence meetings. There were reports they set up simple dummy artillery batteries that were attacked by the Russians.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Patton had led a dummy army with wooden airplanes and balloon tanks on the ground.
Object of Intrigue: The Dummy Paratroopers of WWII
In the hours before sunrise on D-Day, June 6, 1944, Allied soldiers sat bundled on ships and strapped into planes off the coast of Normandy, waiting for the...
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According to a Rupert exhibit at the National World War II Museum, the D-Day dummies were dressed in paratrooper uniforms, including boots and helmets. In addition to the parachutes strapped to their burlap backs, each Rupert carried recordings of gunfire and exploding mortar rounds, to add to the authenticity of the simulated air attack. Drawstrings at the top of the head, wrists, and ankles allowed the dummy to be filled with straw or sand.
D-Day Deception: Operation Fortitude South
In 1944, Dover Castle’s tunnels played a supporting role in Operation Fortitude South, the elaborate deception that concealed the true location of the Allied invasion of western Europe from the Germans.
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The key manipulation was to make the Germans believe that the invasion would take the shortest and most obvious sea crossing, from Dover to the Pas-de-Calais. This aimed to ensure that German defences and troop concentrations in that region were the strongest in the whole ‘Atlantic Wall’, and weaker where the real invasion would fall – in Normandy.
As a part of the wider Bodyguard plan, Operation Fortitude South was designed to reinforce this belief. It also aimed to make the Germans think that the invasion of Normandy, when it happened, would be a diversionary attack, so that, for as long as possible after the real invasion, they would still believe that the main invasion would be coming from the Dover area. This would ensure that they would not divert German forces from the Pas-de-Calais to provide reinforcements in Normandy.
The major part of Fortitude South was a sub-operation called Quicksilver I, the creation of a fictitious army – the First United States Army Group (FUSAG) – stationed in south-east England under General George Patton. Patton was chosen to reinforce the idea that his would be the major assault, as he was the senior American field commander and the one most feared by the Germans.
To strengthen the illusion of FUSAG preparing to embark, dummy landing craft were made from scaffolding tube, wood, canvas and empty 40-gallon barrels. Very convincing when viewed from a distance and from the air, these were assembled and deployed in harbours and estuaries around the south-east, centred on Dover. Large numbers of dummy tanks and vehicles were deployed in groups all over south-east England, to simulate an army preparing to move.
At the same time, a huge volume of fake radio traffic was transmitted and received by fixed and mobile units across south-east England. This was supported by the double agents’ frequent but careful ‘leaks’ about the make-up and position of FUSAG units.
Operation Mincemeat - Wikipedia
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Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael, a tramp who died from eating rat poison, dressed him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed personal items on him identifying him as the fictitious Captain (Acting Major) William Martin. Correspondence between two British generals that suggested that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia, with Sicily as merely the target of a feint, was also placed on the body.
The American Navy code breakers at Pearl Harbor had broken enough of the Japanese Naval codes to know there was an invasion cumming, but they had no way to figure out what the target code name referred to. They had Midway island transmit without encryption that their salt water desalinators were broken.
The code breakers interspersed a Japaneses transmission that said the code name's desalinators were broken and thus the Battle Of Midway was on.
It would be interesting to be a fly on the wall at Ukrainian intelligence meetings. There were reports they set up simple dummy artillery batteries that were attacked by the Russians.
Necessity is the mother of invention.