In the months before the June 1944 Normandy invasion, Patton gave public talks as commander of the fictional First U. S. Army Group ( FUSAG ), which was supposedly intending to invade France by way of Calais.

As an example, before D-Day, Operation Quicksilver, one element of Operation Fortitude, which itself was part of a larger deception strategy ( Operation Bodyguard ), created a fictional " First United States Army Group " ( FUSAG ) commanded by General George Patton that supposedly would invade France at the Pas-de-Calais.

Convinced that Patton would lead the invasion, Rommel was caught off-guard and unable to react strongly to the Normandy invasion, as Patton's illusory FUSAG had not " yet " landed.

The 9th was assigned to a camp on the British coastline opposite of the German defenses in Pas-de-Calais, ostensibly as part of the " First US Army Group " ( FUSAG ) under Gen. John W. Leonard.

As part of the pre-invasion deception plan called Operation Quicksilver, the original FUSAG was renamed 12th Army Group, and " FUSAG " continued as a notional army group threatening to invade France across the Straits of Dover.

The key element of Quicksilver was the creation in German minds that " First United States Army Group " ( FUSAG ) commanded by General George Patton supposedly would land in the Pas-de-Calais for the major invasion of Europe, after the landings in Normandy had lured the German defenders to that front.

Contrary to a widespread misconception, the FUSAG deception was not primarily implemented with dummy tanks, airplanes, or other dummy equipment, since at that stage of the war the Germans were unable to fly reconnaissance planes over England and such effort would have been wasted.

As a part of Fortitude the fictitious First United States Army Group ( FUSAG ) was created.

The corps was transferred to First U. S. Army Group ( FUSAG ) in early June 1944 and moved to Lincolnshire ; restored to Fourth Army when that formation joined FUSAG for Fortitude South II, headquarters now at Tunbridge Wells in Kent, with under command the British 55th and 58th Divisions and the British 35th Armoured Brigade.

In the subsequent ' Fortitude South ' the Fourth Army with different units was presented as part of the fictitious First United States Army Group ( FUSAG ) in its threat to the Pas de Calais.

The fictitious First United States Army Group ( FUSAG ) was portrayed to the World War II Germans as the main force for the invasion of Europe.

successfully gave the impression that FUSAG was to land at the Pas de Calais, convincing the Germans that the real attack at Normandy was a feint.

Before D-Day, Operation Quicksilver portrayed " First United States Army Group " ( FUSAG ), which was merely a skeleton headquarters commanded by General Omar Bradley, as a genuine large army group commanded by General George Patton.

Erwin Rommel and Hitler himself were the primary targets of this operation: convinced that Patton would lead the invasion, Rommel was caught off guard and unwilling to react strongly, as Patton's illusionary FUSAG had not yet landed.

It entailed the creation of the belief in German minds that the Allied force consisted of two army groups, 21st Army Group under Montgomery ( the genuine Normandy invasion force ), and 1st U. S. Army Group ( FUSAG ) ( a fictitious force under General George Patton ), positioned in southeastern England for a crossing at the Pas de Calais.

FUSAG used fake tanks, buildings and radio traffic to create an illusion of an army being formed to land at Calais.

The initial two were the 21st Army Group and the 12th Army Group ( originally the U. S. 1st Army Group or FUSAG ), and in September 1944, operational command of the Sixth Army Group ( which had landed in the south of France during Operation Dragoon ) passed from Allied Force Headquarters ( AFHQ ) to SHAEF.

# Public presence of notable staff associated with phantom groups, such as FUSAG ( First U. S. Army Group ), most notably the well-known US general George S. Patton.

Fortitude South employed similar deception in the south of England, threatening an invasion at Pas de Calais by the fictional 1st U. S. Army Group ( FUSAG ).

Fortitude South employed similar deception in the south of England, threatening an invasion at Pas de Calais by the fictional 1st U. S. Army Group ( FUSAG ).

They maintained the pretense of FUSAG and other forces threatening Pas de Calais for some considerable time after D-Day, possibly even as late as September 1944.

Fortitude South's main aims were to give the impression of a much larger invasion force ( the FUSAG ) in the South-East of England, to achieve tactical surprise in the Normandy landings and, once the invasion had occurred, to mislead the Germans into thinking it a diversionary tactic with Calais the real objective.

Fortitude South's main aims were to give the impression of a much larger invasion force ( the FUSAG ) in the South-East of England, to achieve tactical surprise in the Normandy landings and, once the invasion had occurred, to mislead the Germans into thinking it a diversionary tactic with Calais the real objective.

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They determined that it was a genuine skull from a young male leopard, but also found that the cat had not died in Britain and that the skull had been imported as part of a leopard-skin rug.

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