Operation Bodyguard
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Operation Bodyguard
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Author : Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-06-15
Operation Bodyguard written by Charles River Editors and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-15 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the deception plan from Allied spies *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a Bodyguard of lies." - Winston Churchill During the first half of 1944, the Americans and British commenced a massive buildup of men and resources in the United Kingdom, while Allied Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower and military brass planned the details of an enormous and complex amphibious invasion of Europe. The most obvious place for an invasion was just across the narrow English Channel, and the Germans had built coastal fortifications throughout France to protect against just such an invasion. Cloaking the vastest amphibious landing in history in layers of shrouding misdirection represented an undertaking second only in ambitiousness to the grand seaborne invasion itself, yet with Operation Bodyguard, the Allies attempted precisely that task in regards to 1944's D-Day. Bodyguard would, if successful, confuse the Wehrmacht occupiers of France about the actual place where Operation Overlord would ultimately come ashore. The plan was to trick the Germans into thinking the expected invasion would come in late summer 1944, and would be accompanied by an invasion in Norway, Greece and elsewhere in Europe. The goal was to trick the Germans into defending areas away from the invasion, thus posing less threat to the success of the actual invasion, Operation Overlord. On an operational level it hoped to disguise the strength, timing and objectives of the invasion. The success or failure of these planned misdirections would have deadly serious consequences for the men wading ashore through the Normandy surf in early summer of 1944. The difference in the number and deployment of German forces facing them could determine if they successfully crashed through the west wall of Hitler's "Festung Europa" ("Fortress Europe") or found their decimated, bleeding remnants hurled back in defeat into the sea. Thanks to the misinformation, even as Nazi Germany's Atlantic Wall was strengthened, the deception tricked Hitler into keeping 13 divisions in Norway rather than reinforcing the Normandy peninsula. It had also tricked German High Command into believing that 89 Allied divisions were preparing to land, with enough landing craft to bring 20 divisions ashore. In actuality, the figures were 47 and 6 respectively. It would not have taken a genius commander to realize that an exhausted Britain and a U.S. Army fighting a multi-theatre war in the Pacific, Africa, Western Europe and Italy could not have fielded 87 divisions to attack Europe. Instead the Germans swallowed Allied misinformation hook, line and sinker. Statistics show the extent to which the German High Command were tricked by Allied deception plans. The Fifteenth Army, based at Pas de Calais, grew to a strength of 18 infantry and two panzer divisions. The Seventh Army, based in Normandy, had just 14 infantry and one panzer divisions. To make matters more complicated for the smaller force defending Normandy, the size of their theater of operations stretched for 995 miles of coastline. Rommel and von Rundstedt were both reminded of Frederick II's maxim, "He who defends everything, defends nothing." Without the deception, the Germans would have had free reign to maximize its forces at the point of attack in Normandy and with it, it is unclear whether the Allied invasion would have succeeded. Against such a formidable foe, however, the Allies needed to rely on every trick in the book. Operation Bodyguard: The History of the Allies' Disinformation Campaign Against Nazi Germany Before D-Day looks at the deception and its results. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about Operation Bodyguard like never before.
Operation Bodyguard
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Author : Nigel Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-05-23
Operation Bodyguard written by Nigel Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-23 with categories.
Bodyguard
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Author : Owen Platt
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2004-04
Bodyguard written by Owen Platt and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04 with categories.
Bodyguard" is the compelling true story of the most audacious confidence trick in the history of warfare, "Operation Bodyguard," the secret plan to save D-Day from disaster. How the British managed to convince Hitler and his generals into believing the invasion of Europe in 1944 would take place across the Straits of Dover and not on the beaches of Normandy is a tale worthy of a fictional spy novel. Author Owen Platt has woven a fascinating narrative of the battle of wits to save the lives of countless thousands of allied troops as they swarmed the beaches of Normandy to free Europe from the Nazi occupation. Only the success of "Operation Bodyguard" stood between them and a disaster of epic proportions. It was the biggest bluff of all time.
Operation Bodyguard
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Author : Nigel Jones
language : en
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Release Date : 2024-05-23
Operation Bodyguard written by Nigel Jones and has been published by Kings Road Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-23 with History categories.
The Allied landings on the coast of Normandy on 6 June 1944 - the long-awaited D-Day - was not only the greatest amphibious military operation of all time, it was also the decisive turning point of the Second World War. Its success opened the way for the liberation of western Europe from Nazi tyranny, and for the downfall of Hitler's criminal regime. Yet it could all have gone horribly wrong. An opposed seaborne landing on a fortified and heavily defended hostile coastline is one of the most difficult of all military operations to pull off. Winston Churchill - with his painful memories of the slaughter following the Gallipoli landings in the First World War - was only one of several Allied leaders with grave doubts about the viability of the project. D-Day was saved thanks to an extraordinary and wide-ranging series of deceptions that weakened and confused the Nazis. It was known overall as 'Operation Bodyguard'.Bodyguard involved the creation of phantom armies, complete with dummy aircraft, tanks and landing craft, and scores of equally bogus German spies under Allied control feeding dud imaginary information to their Nazi handlers: all aimed at convincing the enemy that the D-Day invasion would fall around Calais, or in Norway, or near Bordeaux - anywhere, in fact, but its real target in Normandy. Operation Bodyguard was a spectacular success, one of the greatest intelligence coups in history. Evidence from German sources confirms that Hitler held back his panzers around Calais for an astonishing seven weeks after D-Day rather than the mere fortnight expected by Allied planners - believing that the landings in Normandy were a feint and that the 'real' invasion was still to come.
Operation Bodyguard
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Author : Nigel Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-05-23
Operation Bodyguard written by Nigel Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-23 with categories.
D Day In A Fly
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Author : Edgar Wollstone
language : en
Publisher: AJS
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D Day In A Fly written by Edgar Wollstone and has been published by AJS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
Seventy-five years since the D-Day and still its scale and magnitude doesn’t stop to amaze readers. An ambitious German dictator and his dreams of conquering Europe plunged the world into most sanguinary war that history ever records. When German tanks begin to pour into France, the Allies knew Hitler’s juggernaut has to be stopped; the D-Day is fast approaching. The allies come together, vowing to collaborate in a mission that defies belief and human imagination, a vicious tale of subterfuge and lies, all for a greater cause, the Normandy invasion. Of all the formidable weapons ever used in war, the greatest and the most brutal weapon used against Germany will be--the Art of Deception. A trap of lies is being spun; a web of misinformation has been woven by the masterminds of the game to halt the advancing Nazi marauders. D-Day marks the last time Hitler’s men fight for the sake of his lofty territorial ambitions and will be the deadliest. History is often narrated by victors, but this book has the other perspective too, the tale from the vanquished men of Hitler’s Nazi army. When Hitler honored his most trusted spy with the country’s highest Medal of Honor, he must not have dreamt even in his worst nightmare that he was in fact honoring a British spy. This book on D-Day captures the tidings of Normandy landings, which is nothing short of a mythological story of lies, deceit, delusion, deadly betrayals and unbelievable moments of human fragility. A jewel of a book with stories from both sides of a brutal war. Grab your copy soon, lest you run out of luck.
Operation Bodyguard
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Author : Kurt L. Sonntag
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Operation Bodyguard written by Kurt L. Sonntag and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Strategic Deception Operation Fortitude
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Author : Lt.-Col Michael J. Donovan
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-15
Strategic Deception Operation Fortitude written by Lt.-Col Michael J. Donovan and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with History categories.
The Allied leaders decided to conduct the cross-channel invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe in the first half of 1944 during the Tehran Conference held in November 1943. To support this invasion they also decided to implement a comprehensive deception campaign given the cover name BODYGUARD. The goal of BODYGUARD was to deceive Hitler and his senior military commanders about the location and timing of Allied offensive actions. Under the BODYGUARD umbrella, operation FORTITUDE was specifically designed to support the invasion of Normandy. FORTITUDE consisted of two primary operations. FORTITUDE-NORTH was designed to convince the Germans that the Allied invasion in 1944 would come through Norway and Sweden vice France. FORTITUDE-SOUTH was developed to convince Hitler and his staff that the primary invasion site in France would be Pas de Calais and other potential invasion sites, such as Normandy, were only diversions. The BODYGUARD and associated FORTITUDE operations were quite successful in fixing German forces, causing reserves to be committed piecemeal and basically paralyzing Hitler's decision making ability during the time of the Normandy landings and for weeks afterwards. The principles of current joint deception doctrine were applicable and utilized by the deception planners of General Eisenhower's staff long before the current Joint doctrine (Joint Publication 3-58, Joint Doctrine for Military Deception) was ever written.
Diversion And Deception
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Author : Whitney T. Bendeck
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2021-03-04
Diversion And Deception written by Whitney T. Bendeck and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-04 with History categories.
Among the operations known as Plan Bodyguard, the deception devised to cover the Allies’ Normandy landing, was the little known but critical Plan Zeppelin, the largest and most complex of the Bodyguard plans. Zeppelin, in conjunction with the Mediterranean Strategy, succeeded in pinning down sixty German divisions from southern France to the Balkans in time for D-Day. This was the work of “A” Force, Britain’s only military organization tasked with carrying out both strategic and tactical deception in World War II. Whitney T. Bendeck’s Diversion and Deception finds “A” Force at its finest hour, as the war shifted from North Africa to Europe. Focusing on the years 1943 to 1945, Bendeck describes how “A” Force, under the leadership of Dudley Clarke, orchestrated both strategic and tactical deception plans to create notional threats across the southern perimeter of Europe, with the chief objective of keeping the Germans pinned down across the Mediterranean. Her work offers a close and clarifying look at “A” Force’s structure and command, operations and methods, and successes and failures and, consequently, its undeniable contribution to the Allies’ victory in World War II. By shining a light on the often overlooked Mediterranean theater and its direct connection to European plans and operations, Diversion and Deception also provides a deeper understanding of Allied grand strategy in the war. Combining military and deception histories—so often viewed in isolation—this book provides context for the deceptions and adds a layer of knowledge regarding the planning of military operations. The result is a more complete and nuanced view of Allied operations than is to be found in most histories of World War II.
Beyond The Bodyguard
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Author : Gavriel Schneider
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2009
Beyond The Bodyguard written by Gavriel Schneider and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with House & Home categories.
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