Name: Operation Bodyguard (D-Day Invasion deceptions)

1. 150,000 soldiers came ashore making D-Day the largest invasion in

history.
2. Germany’s military was the most powerful in the world with over divisions and
nearly million men.
3. What was the complex of concrete, barbed wire and massive guns Germany built to stop
an allied invasion from the west called?
4. Irwin became the German commander over Hitler’s Atlantic Wall.
5. Over a mines/month were placed and more than obstacles
were placed along the French coastline under Rommel’s direction.
6. The LCS was set up to mislead the Germans as to the Allied armies would
attack.
7. They also wanted to obscure the time and of the future invasion from the sea.
8. General Dwight became the Supreme Allied Commander of the
Allied Expeditionary Force.
9. General was the commander of a fake division that was supposed to
land at Pas de Calais, the shortest distance across the English Channel to France.
10. Because of this deception, Germany kept a of a million troops at Pas de
Calais.
11. The British 4th Army in Edinburgh, Scotland was just a station.
12. This fake army tried to convince Hitler that the invasion would happen where?
13. Simulated radio transmissions were used to make Germany believe that
Allied troops were in Scotland, gearing up for an invasion into Norway.
14. Fake news and double were also used in this deception.
15. Fortitude North also included Allied of Norway that appeared to precede a
future invasion.
16. deceptions were the final piece of the puzzle that showed Norway as
being the Allied target.
17. Hitler believed it and kept over men stationed in Norway.
18. Other deceptions occurred in and Africa to keep German forces dispersed
and to conceal the and place of the landings.
19. A rumor was started stating that Stalin demanded an attack at the to tie up
German troops there also.
20. Greece, and the Dalmation targets were sent to Germany by
double agents.
21. An convincingly played the part of General Montgomery in to
fake an invasion from the south in the Mediterranean Sea region.