Modern era · 1943 – 1944
Operation Bodyguard
Operation Bodyguard was a World War II deception strategy employed by the Allied states before the 1944 invasion of northwest Europe. Bodyguard set out an overall stratagem for misleading the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht as to the time and place of the invasion. Planning for Bodyguard was started in 1943 by the London Controlling Section, a department of the war cabinet.
- When
- 1943 – 1944
- Where
- Europe
- Era
- Modern
Before and after
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