![]() ![]() It would have been a miracle if none of Hitler’s spies ever got to know about it. ![]() Literally thousands of people were involved in perpetrating the trick. It was a huge, near-impossible deception. The object was to fool the enemy into preparing for an invasion via the Pas de Calais, so that on D-Day the Normandy assault would have the advantage of surprise. The ships were rubber-and-timber fakes, the barracks no more real than a movie set Patton did not have a single man under his command the radio signals were meaningless the spies were double agents. Patton was seen in his unmistakable pink jodhpurs walking his white bulldog there were bursts of wireless activity, signals between regiments in the area confirming signs were reported by German spies in Britain. Reconnaissance planes brought back photographs of barracks and airfields and fleets of ships in the Wash General George S. My thanks to Malcolm Hulke for invaluable help, generously given.ĮARLY in 1944 German Intelligence was piecing together evidence of a huge army in southeastern England. ![]()
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