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An early example of military deception was Thutmose III's capture of the Sinai city of Yapu. According to a story from an ancient Egyptian papyrus, in about 1450 BC, an Egyptian army under Pharaoh Thutmose III and his general Djehuty besieged the Caananite city of Yapu (later Joppa and now Jaffa). Unable to gain entry, they resorted to deception.
Additionally, during World War II, Operation Quicksilver was an attempt to mislead the Germans as to the location of the D-Day invasion using dummy military equipment. [2] [3] F-16 mockups on a fake taxiway at Spangdahlem Air Base, 1985. A naval example was the British battleship HMS Centurion. Obsolete and disarmed by World War II, she spent ...
Russian military deception, sometimes known as maskirovka (Russian: маскировка, lit. 'masking, disguise' [1]), is a military doctrine developed from the start of the 20th century. The doctrine covers a broad range of measures for military deception, from camouflage to denial and deception.
The United States Army created a large number of notional deception formations that were used in a number of World War II deception operations. The most notable fictional US formation was the First U.S. Army Group (FUSAG); this field army was originally intended as the main invasion force for the Invasion of Normandy , however that was renamed ...
Military deception during World War II (2 C, 20 P) Pages in category "Military deception" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Over time the scope of the book expanded; the book documents the development of military deception across all Allied forces, from early 1940 until the end of the war. [1] [2] Holt was the first non-official historian allowed access to declassified US war records about deception. [3]
The Netflix drama 'Operation Mincemeat,' starring Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen, is based on the unbelievable true story of a macabre espionage mission.
Operation Bertram was a Second World War deception operation practised by the Allied forces in Egypt led by Bernard Montgomery, in the months before the Second Battle of El Alamein in 1942. Bertram was devised by Dudley Clarke to deceive Erwin Rommel about the timing and location of the Allied attack.