Operation Bodyguard coordinates Taxable, Glimmer, Big Drum, Fortitude North, and Fortitude South around the Normandy landings. The component plans project apparent threats toward Norway, the Pas-de-Calais, and other points away from the real assault. They obscure where D-Day will occur and preserve German uncertainty after troops have already landed in Normandy. The scale of the scheme shows strategic deception as a coordinated campaign of naval movement, false formations, and communications rather than one isolated trick.
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Bodyguard projects invasion fleets away from Normandy
Small craft, false armies, radio traffic, dummy forces, and Lancaster-dropped chaff create apparent invasion threats from Norway to the Pas-de-Calais.