Fortitude: The D-Day Deception CampaignHarry N. Abrams, 2000 M11 1 - 513 pages "Now, for the first time, the classified official history of the entire operation, written by Roger Hesketh as Allied counter-intelligence experts were gathering the evidence of what had been accomplished in early 1945, has been declassified and released. In Fortitude the intricate details of this fantastic diversionary scheme - replete with hundreds of bogus agent reports, an entire U.S. Army Group that did not truly exist, false radio signals, and inflatable tanks - are disclosed with the type of immediacy that can only come from first-hand material."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
Early Planning | 1 |
Appendix Y | 8 |
BODYGUARD and FORTITUDE | 17 |
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21 Army Group 2nd British Corps 7th British Abwehr Air Force Allied Airborne Army already American Army Group American Infantry Division Appendix to Lagebericht April arrived attack August bridgehead Brigade British Armoured Division British Infantry Division BRUTUS Bury St Edmunds Calais Canadian Army Channel Chiefs of Staff concentration confirmed controlled agents cover plan D Day Deception Staff Eisenhower embarkation enemy English Infantry Division fact FORTITUDE SOUTH Fourteenth Army Fourth Army Fourth British Army France FUSAG GMT GARBO group of forces Headquarters hitherto imaginary Intelligence Summary invasion Joint Commanders July Kent Lagebericht West landing craft later Lisbon London Mediterranean Montgomery move movements NEPTUNE Normandy North Northern Norway officers operations Order of Battle organisation OVERLORD Panzer Division Pas de Calais Patton ports preparations Real formation reports reserves Scotland September SHAEF Southern story strategic TATE threat tion troops United Kingdom XXXIII