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Operation Fortitude was a military deception operation by the Allied nations as part of Operation Bodyguard, an overall deception strategy during the

The British put their double-agent network to work in support of Operation Fortitude, a plan to deceive the Germans about the location of the Normandy

all fictitious. Pujol had a key role in the success of Operation Fortitude, the deception operation intended to mislead the Germans about the timing, location

of operational implementations (of which the most significant was Operation Fortitude which developed a threat to Pas-de-Calais). In June 1944 the Allied

Al-Rifa'i was informed of 'Operation Fortitude' in the same meeting. In this operation (completely separate from the WW2 operation, although they share the

Look up fortitude in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fortitude may refer to: Courage, the choice and willingness to confront danger HMS Fortitude, any one

resources were diverted elsewhere. The deceptions undertaken in Operation Fortitude were successful, leaving the Germans obliged to defend a huge stretch

for much of the war. Deceptions in which he participated included Operation Fortitude, which sought to convince German military planners that the Allied

command. He was assigned a key role in Operation Fortitude, the Allies' military deception campaign for Operation Overlord. At the start of the Western

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