Deception Tactics employed by Allied powers during Operation Overlord

History Isn’t as Simple and Honest as You Might Expect: Lessons from WWII

On 6th of June, Allied forces launched the greatest amphibious invasion ever to be seen in the history, the operation was codenamed as “overlord” which is now commonly referred to the D-day invasion. This central objective of the operation involved the landing of the allied forces on the beaches of Normandy and advancing against Hitler’s army. But the things weren’t that simple, before the launch of this historic battle that would eventually prove decisive in attaining victory, Allied powers tried their very best to convince the Nazi forces into believing that they weren’t coming. So that the Nazi forces won’t be sitting there prepared to engage as the Allied forces arrive. The operation involved deceiving measures on multiple platforms which were in perfect synchrony to mislead the German forces for the possible target place of the attack. As a part of these deceptive tactics, across the waters a fake army with artificial tanks and aircraft were deployed which looked like a massive and overwhelmingly equipped as the real army would from the German reconnaissance planes. Although the trickery in warfare is not new, it went on to a whole new level against the Germans. In warfare tactics, trickery is as old…