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485: 362: 284:(Garbo)—played a vital role in persuading the Germans that FUSAG was real. After it had become clear that Normandy, not Calais, was the invasion site, to preserve the credibility of the Double Cross network's agents in spite of the totally false information they had persuaded the Germans to believe, the Germans were persuaded that FUSAG had been real, but had been disbanded and attached to the forces at Normandy because the Normandy "diversion" had been so successful that the Calais landing had become unnecessary. 819: 80: 329: 351: 496: 452: 474: 62: 1646: 398: 463: 415: 441: 38: 526: 310: 340: 318: 373: 430: 515: 288: 387: 797: 1128: 1683: 1352: 756: 2323: 771: 766: 761: 226:
was activated on 1 August 1944, Bradley and his staff transferred to the headquarters of the new army group. Despite a lack of personnel, FUSAG continued to exist on paper as part of the deception of
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The deception worked so well that significant German forces remained in the Pas de Calais region for seven weeks after the real invasion at
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First U.S. Army Group was activated in London in 1943 as the planning formation for the Allied invasion of France under General
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in command of the phantom force and increased the formation's apparent size to be larger than the British-led
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Agents infiltrated by Germany into the United Kingdom who became double agents acting for Britain in the
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What follows is the order of battle for the First United States Army Group at one point during
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For the oldest and longest-established field army of the United States Army, see
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from the site. To further attract the Axis commanders' attention, General
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to defend against what they thought would be the true invasion force.
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Shoulder patches of some nonexistent units of FUSAG
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Index

First United States Army

United States
United States Army
Army group
Omar N. Bradley
Courtney Hodges
George S. Patton
Lesley J. McNair
William H. Simpson
John L. DeWitt
Allied
Army Group
World War II
D-Day
Operation Quicksilver
deceive
Germans
would land in France
Axis
George S. Patton
Omar Bradley
Twelfth United States Army Group
Operation Quicksilver
German forces
Pas de Calais
Dover
English Channel
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George S. Patton

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