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Operation Accumulator

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The operation was a failure; whilst the signals were made, there was no reaction from the German force. This may have been helped by the Allied air report - the pilot would have been informed - and by a lack of any corroborating evidence; for example, there was no attempt at spoofing radar signals,
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operations had been used to divert attention from the Allied landings by suggesting that a second invasion force was still waiting to land. This caused the defenders to divert their forces from the fighting in Normandy, holding them in reserve for an invasion in the
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to continue alone; the two ships were also spotted by an Allied reconnaissance plane, which radioed back that it had found "unidentified warships".
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Some days after the initial landings, it was decided to mount a smaller operation to simulate a follow-up landing force heading for
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Operation NEPTUNE (Naval Aspects of Operation OVERLORD) Administrative History, 1948
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The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War
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Military history of the Channel Islands during World War II
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Index

Channel Islands
Operation Overlord
Operation Fortitude
deception
Pas de Calais
Granville
Cotentin Peninsula
Royal Canadian Navy
Haida
Huron
Operation Glimmer
Operation Taxable
Operation NEPTUNE (Naval Aspects of Operation OVERLORD) Administrative History, 1948
Land Force Information Operation - Deception
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Allied
military deception
World War II
'A' Force
Dudley Clarke
Victor Jones
London Controlling Section
John Bevan
Dennis Wheatley
Ronald Wingate
Ops (B)
Noel Wild
Roger Fleetwood-Hesketh

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