The most striking was the creation of two phantom armies – one in Scotland to threaten an invasion of Norway, and the other in southeast England to threaten Pas-de-Calais.
The top-secret date was selected - the early hours of June 6, 1944.īut to keep the destination under wraps, an elaborate plan called Operation Fortitude used multiple layers of trickery. Here’s a map showing the relative distances. So it made perfect sense that the Allies would invade Calais.īut in fact, they secretly selected the beaches of Normandy, about one hundred miles away, or one hundred and sixty kilometres.
Operation Fortitude was an elaborate, mind-boggling hoax – using decoys such as rubber tanks, canvas ships, plywood aircraft, and even dummy soldiers to fool the Germans about where we secretly planned to land on D-Day.Įveryone knew the Allies would eventually try to take back the continent. But when, and where? To refresh your knowledge of geography, Pas-de-Calais is an easy hop, just thirty miles away (about fifty kilometres) from England’s coastline.
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