Name: D-Day - The Secret War - Extra History - #2（D-Day - The Secret War - Extra History - #2）
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The south of England had become a vast military camp,

jam-packed with hundreds of thousands of soldiers,

all planning on a trip to the Normandy beaches in the early summer.

The job of the British Security Service, MI5,

was to make sure that, on D-Day, the Germans were looking the other way.

If they failed, tens of thousands of men would die.

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In August 1942, desperate to score a success

in the face of an unending string of military setbacks and defeats,

the Allies carried out a daring raid on the French port of Dieppe.

But the Germans were ready for them, fortified and prepared for the attack.

leaving almost 4,000 Canadians dead on the beaches.

that when the real invasion of France came,

the Germans must not be prepared for it, or D-Day would mean destruction.

This was, of course, going to be a little tricky.

By 90 days after D-Day, the US army alone

planned to have 1.2 million men with all of their equipment in France.

You can't just hide that under a bit of camouflage netting.

the most ambitious deception plan in military history.

The operation wouldn't pretend that there was to be no invasion,

that would be impossible. Instead, their goal would be

to fool the Germans about how many were coming, when they would land,

Army groups were positioned around Britain to confuse the Germans.

The British 4th army was stationed in Scotland,

General George Patton became the proud commander

stationed on the English coast opposite the Pas de Calais,

The British 4th and the US 1st were somewhat unusual armies

in that there were no actual people in them.

They were completely fake, made up, non-existent.

The allies had no real soldiers to spare,

they were all needed in France for the ACTUAL invasion.

So to get the Germans to fall for this massive bluff,

They created a brilliant illusion, an entire dummy army,

wooden aircraft, inflatable tanks, 250 fake landing craft.

Two fake corps headquarters were invented,

pouring out a constant stream of radio drivel.

At one point, King George VI even made an official inspection visit,

solemnly inspecting row after row of blow up tanks and real troops

all while the daily news reel broadcast this inspection to the world.

George even managed to look thoroughly impressed.

And, because you might as well go big or go home,

this inflatable 1st US Army was presented not just as a threat, but as

the threat, the primary invasion force to be launched at the Pas de Calais.

the most likely destination for the Allied attack;

now the Allies just had to make sure the Germans CONTINUED to believe that.

so called for the XX Roman Numerals… Double Cross.

Double Cross fed the Germans a constant stream of highly credible intel,

a combination of utter rubbish and brilliant information

Back in 1939, the British had turned a German agent into a double agent.

He was pretty useless, but he had told MI5 everything they needed to know

about how the German secret service communicated with their agents.

The Twenty Committee used this information to create

By D-Day, Germany's network of spies in Britain

One agent was a Catalan, code named GARBO.

Garbo created a completely fictitious network of 27 agents

who bombarded the German embassy in Madrid with messages,

presenting an utterly convincing, and utterly false, picture.

The REAL attack, they said, would come in the Pas de Calais;

any other perceived invasions such as, I don't know, Normandy, whatever,

those were feints. If you hear any guns or shouting,

just relax, it's just the neighbours again. Go back to bed.

So good, in fact, that the Germans awarded him with the Iron Cross

But the danger was that even if they fooled the Germans before the invasion,

once the Allies landed, the deception would be over.

All German military strength in France would be concentrated on Normandy;

and the Allies would then no doubt be driven back into the sea.

So a series of new operations were concocted to convince the Germans

that other invasions would follow the first all along the coast of France.

a complete photographic map of all of the beaches was needed.

The RAF and USAAF ran hundreds of photographic missions,

So the public were asked to send in all of their holiday beach photos.

Then the toy maker Chad Valley was commissioned to take this intel

and make a vast map of the operational area

The jigsaw map was delivered by two men in two pieces,

neither of them knew which was the real one,

neither was allowed to leave headquarters until D-Day was over.

The British armed forces were obsessive about security.

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