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Operation Fortitude was the codename for a World War II military deception employed by the Allied nations as part of an overall deception strategy ( code named Bodyguard ) during the build-up to the 1944 Normandy landings.
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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 invasion of France.
Pujol had a key role in the success of Operation Fortitude, the deception operation intended to mislead the Germans about the timing and location of the invasion of Normandy near the end of the war.
This was Operation Overlord, and Pujol played a leading role in the deception and misinformation campaign Operation Fortitude, sending over 500 radio messages between January 1944 and D-Day, at times more than twenty messages per day.
" A post-war examination of German records found that during Operation Fortitude no fewer than sixty-two of Pujol's reports were included in German military high command intelligence summaries.
Pas-de-Calais was also the target of Operation Fortitude during World War II, which was an Allied plan to deceive the Germans that the invasion of Europe at D-Day was to occur here, rather than in Normandy.
This was part of a sophisticated Allied campaign of military disinformation, Operation Fortitude.
Fortitude was one of the major elements of Operation Bodyguard, the overall Allied deception stratagem for the Normandy landings.
The planning of Operation Fortitude came under the auspices of the London Controlling Section, a secret body set up to manage Allied deception strategy during the war.
This info can be found in the plans for Operation Fortitude.
Edinburgh Castle, headquarters of the fictional British Fourth Army during Operation Fortitude
Operation Skye was the code name for the radio deception component of Fortitude North, involving simulated radio traffic between fictional army units.
The key element of Fortitude South was Operation Quicksilver.
One of the historians, posing as a contemporary British soldier, has been assigned to assist with Operation Fortitude.
* Levine, Joshua, Operation Fortitude: the Story of the Spy Operation that Saved D-Day, London: Collins, 2011, ISBN 978-0-00-731353-2
* Royal Engineers Museum Royal Engineers and Operation Overlord / Fortitude
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The system played a major part in the massive campaign of deception which preceded the D-Day landings, designed to give the Germans a false impression of the location and timings of the landings ( see Operation Fortitude ).
A classic example of disinformation occurred during World War II, preceding the Normandy landings, in what would be known as Operation Fortitude.
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.
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Reinhard Heydrich was killed after an attack by British trained Czechoslovak soldiers on behalf of the Czechoslovak government in exile in Operation Anthropoid, and knowledge from decoded transmissions allowed the U. S. to carry out a targeted attack, killing Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto while he was travelling by plane.
Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, was almost killed by his own officers, and survived various attempts by other persons and organizations ( such as Operation Foxley, though this plan was never put into practice ).
In 1986, U. S. President Ronald Reagan ( who survived an assassination attempt himself ) ordered the Operation El Dorado Canyon air raid on Libya in which one of the primary targets was the home residence of Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
It was soon used in combat — in March 1986 against a Libyan SA-5 site in the Gulf of Sidra, and then Operation Eldorado Canyon in April.
HARM was used extensively by the United States Navy and the United States Air Force for Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War of 1991.
The occupation of these facilities in October 1943 was codenamed Operation Alacrity by the British.
The most recent overseas operation of the Navy was along the coast of Libya as part of Operation Unified Protector.
He was in command of all Allied ground forces during Operation Overlord from the initial landings until after the Battle of Normandy.
After Gott was killed flying back to Cairo Churchill was persuaded by Brooke, who by this time was Chief of the Imperial General Staff to appoint Montgomery, who had only just been nominated to replace Alexander as commander of the British ground forces for Operation Torch.
The conquest of Libya was essential for airfields to support Malta and to threaten the rear of Axis forces opposing Operation Torch.
The Battle of Peleliu, codenamed Operation Stalemate II, was fought between the United States and the Empire of Japan in the Pacific Theater of World War II, from September – November 1944 on the island of Peleliu, present-day Palau.
In 2002, it was a primary combat zone in Operation Defensive Shield, a major military offensive by the Israeli Defense Forces ( IDF ).
After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.
For the next five years he and the Northern Alliance were busy fighting the Taliban until the 2001 US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled.
Indeed, the final German blitzkrieg operation in the west, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was planned to take place during poor weather which grounded Allied aircraft.
By the summer of 1944 the reversal of fortune was complete and Operation Bagration saw Soviet forces inflict crushing defeats on Germany through the aggressive use of armour, infantry and air power in combined strategic assault, known as deep operations.
Germany's last offensive on its Western front, Operation Wacht am Rhein, was an offensive launched towards the vital port of Antwerp in December 1944.
Many historians now hold the position that blitzkrieg was not a military theory, and the campaigns conducted by the German military in 1939 to circa, 1942 ( with the exception of Operation Barbarossa ) were improvised invasions put together and modified at the last moment and therefore was not a proper military strategy.
It was only after the Battle of France German thinking reverted to the possibility of a blitzkrieg method for the Balkan Campaign and Operation Barbarossa.
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* Operation Mars, codename of the Second Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive, a Soviet offensive during World War II
* Operation Mercury, codename for the German invasion of Crete during World War II
Operation Husky, the codename for the Allied invasion of Sicily, was launched on the night of 9 / 10 July 1943 with British forces attacking the west of the island.
Problems with India continued with West when in 1965, Foreign minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Defence minister Vice-Admiral Afzal Rahman Khan approached to President Ayub Khan for the approval of the covert-back operation, codename Operation Gibraltar.
Operation Gibraltar was codename of an airborne mission to infiltrate in Indian Kashmir, and was originally planned to executed by Army ( Special Service Group ) and PAF ( Special Service Wing ).
The invasion was given the codename Operation Attila and included two phases.
* Operation Azul, the Argentine codename for the military landings that started the Falklands War
* Operation Granby, the UK codename for its military operation in the Gulf War
Operation Peter Pan ( Operación Peter Pan or Operación Pedro Pan ) is a codename of the CIA project, in course of which over 14, 000 Cuban children were sent from Cuba to Miami by their parents after rumors were spread that the Cuban government led by Fidel Castro will soon begin taking children against the wishes of their parents to military schools and to Soviet labour camps.
* Operation Rockingham, a British government codename relating to operations with regard to Iraq
* A No-Fly Zone, which prohibits the flights of Iraqi aircraft, was established in southern Iraq, south of latitude 32 degrees north to protect the Shiite's population, codename Operation Southern Watch.
The penultimate preliminary operation to close up to the Rhine in the British section was the clearing of the Roer Triangle ( codename Operation Blackcock ).
Australia later provided one of the four most substantial combat force contingents during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, under the operational codename Operation Falconer.
* Operation Telic, the codename for the British military participation in the 2003 Iraq War
In 1941, Germany commenced a large-scale military offensive against Soviet Union under codename Operation Barbarossa.
The codename " Operation Matador " was used no less than six times by various armies and intelligence agencies.
Operation ( or Op ) TELIC was the codename under which all British military operations in Iraq were conducted between the start of the Invasion of Iraq on 19 March 2003 and the withdrawal of the last remaining British forces on 22 May 2011.
Operation Tonga was the codename given to the airborne operation undertaken by the British 6th Airborne Division between 5 June and 7 June 1944 as a part of Operation Overlord and the Normandy Landings during the Second World War.
Operation Downfall was the codename for the Allied plan for the invasion of Japan near the end of World War II.
Operation Felix was the codename for a proposed German seizure of Gibraltar during World War II.
The codename Operation Husky was decided upon for the invasion, and planning began in February.
Operation Veritas was the codename used for British military operations against the Taliban government of Afghanistan in 2001.
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