(Groan)
Yet another documentary on WWII where the Brits have now been erased from the programme...and the war in general.. The Ghost Army was officially known as 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 23rd, according to the programme, were the brains behind deception.
Wrong. As I research unorthodox aspects of WWII, the truth was the whole deception plan was conceived during the Battle of Britain, with help from Bletchley Park, Col. Turner's Dept. set-up fake airfields around the country.
Then add Operation Mincemeat, Fortitutde South and North, 617 Dambuster Squadron was also involved with deception... all this included personnel such as Ian Fleming.
What the Yanks were referring to was FUSAG (First US Army Group), set-up in Kent. All the inflatable tanks were produced by Dunlop: They were producing 50 each week, leading up to D-Day. To make the FUSAG camp more believable, Col. Turner's dept., with the help of captured double agents, were diverting all the radio traffic from across Britain via FUSAG.
Although not new ( The Brits were erased by the film 'Objective, Burma' made in the late 40s), it seems the only thing we're omitted is the Battle of Britain. The Americans tried to achieve that about 10-years ago: They had plans to remake the BoB with Tom Cruise as the main character. What they didn't want to admit to was the true life character, played by the wonder gnome, was shot down in the first week of operations, and although survived, he never flew again during the BoB.
This bloody annoys me!!
Yet another documentary on WWII where the Brits have now been erased from the programme...and the war in general.. The Ghost Army was officially known as 23rd Headquarters Special Troops. The 23rd, according to the programme, were the brains behind deception.
Wrong. As I research unorthodox aspects of WWII, the truth was the whole deception plan was conceived during the Battle of Britain, with help from Bletchley Park, Col. Turner's Dept. set-up fake airfields around the country.
Then add Operation Mincemeat, Fortitutde South and North, 617 Dambuster Squadron was also involved with deception... all this included personnel such as Ian Fleming.
What the Yanks were referring to was FUSAG (First US Army Group), set-up in Kent. All the inflatable tanks were produced by Dunlop: They were producing 50 each week, leading up to D-Day. To make the FUSAG camp more believable, Col. Turner's dept., with the help of captured double agents, were diverting all the radio traffic from across Britain via FUSAG.
Although not new ( The Brits were erased by the film 'Objective, Burma' made in the late 40s), it seems the only thing we're omitted is the Battle of Britain. The Americans tried to achieve that about 10-years ago: They had plans to remake the BoB with Tom Cruise as the main character. What they didn't want to admit to was the true life character, played by the wonder gnome, was shot down in the first week of operations, and although survived, he never flew again during the BoB.
This bloody annoys me!!
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