Operation+Fortitude

=Operation Fortitude=

Basic Background
Operation Fortitude was a WWII military deception plan by the Allied Nations to divert the attention of the Germans while the Allied Nations attacked Normandy on D-Day. The Germans fell for the plan and diverted all of their troops away from Normandy while the Allied Nations attacked and gained a foothold in Normandy. ==American and British forces worked together to create a fake group known as the British Fourth Army Group and was claimed to be in Edinburgh, Scotland. The fake target of attack was the Pas de Calais region of France. This seemed like the more believable target because it was a shorter distance across the more direct route to Germany. The fictional group assigned General George S. Patton to command the troops, and the group purposefully filled all radio airways with signals of the attack in order to fool the German spies and make the attack seem real.==

Once the real attack on Normandy occurred, Hitler refused to move his troops from the new location because he believed the Normandy attack was just a diversion to get him to move his troops. This allowed the Allied Forces to win the battle of Normandy due to the lack of strong forces, and they eventually defeated Germany because Normandy was such a strong foothold.