In the D-Day invasion and before the Americans made elaborate plans to deceive the Germans. Their first deception was where they were planning on landing.They deceived Hitler and Germany that they would land anywhere but Normandy. This was done through fake German spies who found information, and fake news that accidentally got let out. The Germans were indirectly informed that the Americans would either invade leaving from Britain, or from Norway. The ploy about Norway seemed unlikely to Hitler due to the lack of ports there. This was disproved when Americans brought mulberries which created fake ports for the ships to dock.
One of the places we informed Hitler we would invade from was from Britain. To make them believe this, we put some men in Britain and even sent a strong American General to patrol and act as if he were planning. This entire hoax did have effects of the German's decisions. Due to such inconspicuous information, they spread their forces out along the coast in case the Americans attacked from Britain or Norway. This allowed us to attack the beaches of Normandy with less enemy attacks. The generals understood the importance of having less men to go against when invading during D-Day.
Hitler and Germany figured that the raid of the beaches would go anywhere other than the beaches at Normandy. Not only was this becuase of the deception plan that you mentioned in your post, but they also didn't expect an attack to come to the beaches because it wasn't a port city at all. Off the beaches there was nothing creating a good location to land boats and bring in more to support troops once they get on to the beaches, meaning that they would be alone. This is why mulberries were so important to the Allied armies. They were a way to create calm waters off the coast so that the american ships could come in to the beaches and offere more support for the troops. They were big blocks of concrete that were sunk to make this possible for the boats.
ReplyDeleteTo add to the blog post above, the Allies were original contemplating on bombing Auschwitz, but instead decided to focus on Operation Overlord. General Eisenhower directed this invasion described in the blog post, in which troops would cross the English Channel by ship and land on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944 (D-Day). It was then that Eisenhower said, "You will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world," to his 156,000 troops.
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