Explore: Opération Fortitude (1944)

an overall deception strategy during the buildup to the 1944 Normandy landings. Fortitude was divided into two subplans, North and South, and had the

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

Europe during World War II. The operation was launched on 6 June 1944 (D-Day) with the Normandy landings (Operation Neptune). A 1,200-plane airborne

landings were the landing operations and associated airborne operations on 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during the Second

southern England called Fortitude South. Through decoy hardware, radio transmissions and double agents, Operation Fortitude South attempted to inflate

of the United States Army was a military deception created in 1944 as part of Fortitude South II It was initially depicted as being under the direct command

invasion of Normandy in 1944 and was intended to mislead German intelligence as to the location of General Bernard Montgomery. The operation was conceived by

Operation Jupiter was an offensive by VIII Corps of the British Second Army from 10 to 11 July 1944. The operation took place during the Battle of Normandy

Operation Ironside was a Second World War military deception undertaken by the Allies in 1944. It formed part of Operation Bodyguard, a broad strategic

the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 4 (1944) pp. 99–105 Roger Hesketh. Fortitude: The D-Day Deception Campaign. St Ermins Press. 1999.