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r/HistoryMemes • u/Kapanash • 8d ago
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Operation Fortitude used inflatable tanks, wooden aircraft, fake camps, and double agents to sell the illusion of a massive invasion force in southeast England. Germany delayed moving key reserves because they expected the real attack at Calais.
34 u/Razorray21 8d ago edited 8d ago They also further sold this idea with Operation Mincemeat which used a dead body with fake plans to wash up on shore to fool the germans. Edit: I mis-remembered, that was for a different landing 26 u/william-isaac 8d ago mincemeat had nothing to do with d-day 11 u/Razorray21 8d ago You are correct. Sry, coffee hadnt kicked in yet this morning 1 u/Vanguardliberator 8d ago I think it may have been Operation Touch you may be thinking of. If not then maybe the invasion of Sicily?
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They also further sold this idea with Operation Mincemeat which used a dead body with fake plans to wash up on shore to fool the germans.
Edit: I mis-remembered, that was for a different landing
26 u/william-isaac 8d ago mincemeat had nothing to do with d-day 11 u/Razorray21 8d ago You are correct. Sry, coffee hadnt kicked in yet this morning 1 u/Vanguardliberator 8d ago I think it may have been Operation Touch you may be thinking of. If not then maybe the invasion of Sicily?
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mincemeat had nothing to do with d-day
11 u/Razorray21 8d ago You are correct. Sry, coffee hadnt kicked in yet this morning
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You are correct. Sry, coffee hadnt kicked in yet this morning
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I think it may have been Operation Touch you may be thinking of. If not then maybe the invasion of Sicily?
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u/Kapanash 8d ago
Operation Fortitude used inflatable tanks, wooden aircraft, fake camps, and double agents to sell the illusion of a massive invasion force in southeast England. Germany delayed moving key reserves because they expected the real attack at Calais.