What Were The Factors That Contributed To The Success Of The Deception Operation That Was Code Named Fortitude?

What Were The Factors That Contributed To The Success Of The Deception Operation That Was Code Named Fortitude?

Introduction

The aim of this paper is to discuss the factors that contributed in the success of deception operation. The code name of deception operation is Fortitude. On 6 June 1944, Allied forces stormed the beaches at Normandy. The invasion has taken several years of arguments and planning by Allied leaders. These leaders remain committed with this mission till return to European continent after the evacuation of Germans bad forced to Allied forces. In 1944, Prime Minister Churchill and other British leaders remained unconvinced that the invasion had been feasible. In November 1943 at Teheran conference, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill promised Josef Stalin that Allied troops would launch operation overlord the invasion of Normandy. Because of their continuing concerns about Overlord, the British convinced the Americans to implement a plan that would help to assure the invasion's success.

Discussion

Historians analyzed the Normandy invasion to devote some discussion on Operation Fortitude. Although, they admitted that Fortitude North did not accomplish all the Allied deception planners but many historians heap praise on Fortitude, South using phrases such as unquestionably the greatest deception in military history. Many of these historians assumed that the Fortitude deception played a crucial role in the June 1944 allied assault. There are several other factors that contributed towards the allied victory in Normandy. British military leaders believed that a plan for operation overlord was essential. This plan drawing upon their experiences these force members of LCS went to work on a plan in 1943. The LCS designed an operation that was eventually called as Fortitude that Shaef accepted and helped to implement.

Fortitude was by far the most ambitious plan designed by the LCS during the war. Fortitude was much more complex than it was realized; following discussion presents a detailed examination of Fortitude from the planning stage to its conclusion, in 1944. Attention is paid on all those areas that were neglected previously in Fortitude North. In addition to examining the operation from the allied perspective, the discussion examines that the German response before, during, and after the Allies invaded Normandy was different at every stage. According to Wingate and Hesketh reports, in designing the deception General Frederick E. Morgan they had to consider certain security factors communications restrictions, mainly after the overlord briefing of troops, and frontier closings in England, Scotland and Wales. Colonel John Bevan bead of the London Controlling Section argued against closing the frontiers because it might alert the enemy to the time of invasion more than the leakage of information after troop briefings. In presenting his thoughts about strategic deception plans for Overlord to General Frederick E. Morgan, Bevan noted that, be hoped for tactical, not strategic, surprise. General Frederick E. Morgan received Bevan's plan on 14 July, but disagreed with it. In deception in World War Charles ...