El ejército fantasma aliado en Inglaterra
Publicado: Lun May 22, 2006 3:40 am
Hay una verdadera pléyade de operaciones de engaño o deception que los aliados pusieron en marcha para ocultar sus intenciones en Normandía. Una de las más espectaculares fue la creación de un auténtico ejército fantasma en el Sur de Inglaterra que hizo a los alemanes fallar en su estimación de las fuerzas aliadas de forma notable. Aquí están sus distintivos:
Una lista de las operaciones más destacadas:
Ferdinand: a plan designed to convince the Germans that the Allies intended to make their principal thrust in the Mediterranean in Italy, to the exclusion of a "secondary" invasion in southern France or the Balkans.
Fortitude North: an amphibious invasion of central Norway. Since Hitler was particularly sensitive about the security of Norway, which was an important source of iron ore and a valuable base in the war against the Russian convoys, this was a fairly elaborate deception, and was quite successful.
Fortitude South: an amphibious invasion across the Straits of Dover against the Pas de Calais, the most direct and logistically easy invasion route, albeit the riskiest, since the Germans could read maps as well. As a result, this was the most elaborate of all the cover plans, and the most successful. The deception was maintained for nearly two months after D?Day as a way of convincing the Germans that the Normandy landings were actually a diversion. In effect, the Allies managed to convince the Germans that the enormous Normandy operation was one huge feint.
Glimmer: a simulated assault landing against Boulogne, near the Pas de Calais, on D?Day itself, to pin down German troops during the initial hours of the invasion.
Ironside: a threatened landing against Bordeaux and southwestern France, intended to keep German troops away from Normandy for as long as possible.
Royal Flush: a series of diplomatic deceptions designed to suggest that various neutrals (Sweden, Spain, and Turkey) might be contemplating joining the Allies, or at least allowing them air base rights or similar benefits.
Taxable: a simulated assault landing against Fecamp, just north of Normandy on D?Day itself, to pin down German troops during the crucial first hours of the invasion. Cuatrimotores ingleses del 617 Squadron simularon en el radar la navegación de una gran flota http://www.docdroid.net/zxQXR0e/operati ... y.pdf.html
Vendetta: an invasion of southern France. Since the Allies actually intended to land in southern France (Operation Anvil/Dragoon), this was a truly tricky trick. First the Allies had to mount a convincing threat, and then, once the D?Day landings had actually taken place, that this threat was for a second landing, to occur within a week or so of the Normandy operation. But then the Germans had to be convinced that that it had all been a ruse after all, so that they would begin to strip away troops to support the fighting further north, in time for the real landings, which occurred with considerable success on August 15, 1944, about a month after the Vendetta cover plan was blown by the transfer of the troops involved from North Africa to Italy.
Zeppelin: a series of deceptions designed to suggest that the principal Allied thrust would be in the Balkans, either against Pola, at the head of the Adriatic, of on the Dalmatian coast, or in Albania, Greece, Crete, or against Romania, or some combination of several of them simultaneously
http://www.strategypage.com/articles/de ... eader=long
Una lista de las operaciones más destacadas:
Ferdinand: a plan designed to convince the Germans that the Allies intended to make their principal thrust in the Mediterranean in Italy, to the exclusion of a "secondary" invasion in southern France or the Balkans.
Fortitude North: an amphibious invasion of central Norway. Since Hitler was particularly sensitive about the security of Norway, which was an important source of iron ore and a valuable base in the war against the Russian convoys, this was a fairly elaborate deception, and was quite successful.
Fortitude South: an amphibious invasion across the Straits of Dover against the Pas de Calais, the most direct and logistically easy invasion route, albeit the riskiest, since the Germans could read maps as well. As a result, this was the most elaborate of all the cover plans, and the most successful. The deception was maintained for nearly two months after D?Day as a way of convincing the Germans that the Normandy landings were actually a diversion. In effect, the Allies managed to convince the Germans that the enormous Normandy operation was one huge feint.
Glimmer: a simulated assault landing against Boulogne, near the Pas de Calais, on D?Day itself, to pin down German troops during the initial hours of the invasion.
Ironside: a threatened landing against Bordeaux and southwestern France, intended to keep German troops away from Normandy for as long as possible.
Royal Flush: a series of diplomatic deceptions designed to suggest that various neutrals (Sweden, Spain, and Turkey) might be contemplating joining the Allies, or at least allowing them air base rights or similar benefits.
Taxable: a simulated assault landing against Fecamp, just north of Normandy on D?Day itself, to pin down German troops during the crucial first hours of the invasion. Cuatrimotores ingleses del 617 Squadron simularon en el radar la navegación de una gran flota http://www.docdroid.net/zxQXR0e/operati ... y.pdf.html
Vendetta: an invasion of southern France. Since the Allies actually intended to land in southern France (Operation Anvil/Dragoon), this was a truly tricky trick. First the Allies had to mount a convincing threat, and then, once the D?Day landings had actually taken place, that this threat was for a second landing, to occur within a week or so of the Normandy operation. But then the Germans had to be convinced that that it had all been a ruse after all, so that they would begin to strip away troops to support the fighting further north, in time for the real landings, which occurred with considerable success on August 15, 1944, about a month after the Vendetta cover plan was blown by the transfer of the troops involved from North Africa to Italy.
Zeppelin: a series of deceptions designed to suggest that the principal Allied thrust would be in the Balkans, either against Pola, at the head of the Adriatic, of on the Dalmatian coast, or in Albania, Greece, Crete, or against Romania, or some combination of several of them simultaneously
http://www.strategypage.com/articles/de ... eader=long