Operation Bodyguard: The Deception That Won D-Day | Secrets Of War | Timeline



From inflatable tanks to flasified plans learn more about the tools of deception used by the Allies that made D-Day, the most critical battle of WWII, a success.

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  1. The 5th & 6th of June (1944) were picked due to Tidal Conditions and the worry about an unknown German spy spotting all of the preparations. Next favorable Tidal Conditions (but without a Full Moon) would be two weeks later.
    Eisenhower decided to go on the 6th.
    We got lucky, Very Lucky!!! Because when the New Moon occurred two weeks later a storm came up so bad that it sunk ships! Severally Damaged both Mulberries (artificial harbors) to the point where only one was considered worth repairing due to the amount of time it would take to repair the second one…. (They hoped to have a Channel Port captured soon.)

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  2. In 5 years, the Allies beat the German Air Force and then had the advantage to win WW2. In the 2000s the US owned the skies but took 20 years and still couldn’t defeat a primitive enemy. You watch the documentaries and the guys are always begging for air cover.

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  3. The Atlantic wall could of only work if the Germans had complete and superiority like in 1941 fortunately they didn't,if they did the Allies could not even cross the channel much less invade France.

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  4. Eisenhower was worried about failure but he wasn't worried about how many thousands of human beings were killed in doing so as long as he won why he was sitting in his last comfortable air conditioning room that he was in it's easy to command somebody else to go die when you're sitting in a nice cozy room but unfortunately brainwashed human beings will do so

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  5. This whole picture was full of s***it everything they're saying is a lie everything about world war II was a lie you basically had three people that cannot get along instead of them three people fighting each other they had hundreds of thousands of people die because they were cowards to fight each other instead

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  6. The whole war was a deception the government's wanted to send down the population so they created this war to do so and that's all it was about and unfortunately idiots will follow that same seat again

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  7. You all need better adviser before buying property don't waist the curancy of your country people where ever you all from . What country you are born . Can you all fill out my census I think it's easy . They know from the American embacy and INS RECORDS police RECORDS. My records is not that good because of the ignorant . Look the alphabetical order . They put it in the computer not alphabetical order but in school you learn to read it's alphabetical order tell me not ???

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  8. The truth is always in record . Even school right now they change the name . AND my RECORDS still in the UNITED STATES RECORDS . HOW DID I GET HERE ? IT'S SACRIFICE TO LEARN AND TO PLEASE PEOPLE . I ALWAYS PLEASE I FEEL LIKE I GOT INVADE WITH THE KNOLEGE OF THE HOSPITALS . I DON'T SEE ANY IMPROBMENT THE MILITARY DYING IN HOSPITALS.. TELL ME IF I GONNA DIE IN HOSPITAL OR I GONNA DIE IN SLEEP.?

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  9. By the middle of WWI, Canada and Australia insisted on having their own generals commanding their troops, because the British generals were reckless.

    Australia had General John Monash, and Canada had General Arthur Currie. Bother were excellent generals and were knighted on their battlefields by George V.

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  10. Laying a million mines a month..that means they would have been making at least one million mines per month, along with everything else they were producing. And the allies produced more! It's all amazing in that aspect.

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  11. Rommel used to match thru a town with miles of tanks and artillery, he would snake the line of his army around to get to the end of his troops, causing people to assume the army is way bigger than it was. It worked quite a bit.

    Seems like a lot of battles we thought or assumed were just battles, there was often deception on one side or the others. Or both.

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