Operation Bodyguard Military Deception

The name of Operation bodyguard was chosen from a quote that Winston Churchill once said, “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.” It was this quote by Winston Churchill that named one of the most effective and difficult Allied operative of World War II, Operation Bodyguard. Operation Bodyguard was a military deception pulled off by the Allied Nations, also known as the United Nations to fool the Nazis and Germany. The Nazis and Germany were very powerful during this time, and Operation Bodyguard helped slow them down so that the United Nations could get a head start and throw them off their game. Operation Bodyguard itself consisted of a series of smaller deceptions to pull off one of the greatest military deceptions in history. The carefully executed military deception of Operation Bodyguard successfully tricked the Nazi commanders and ultimately helped lead to the Allied success on D-Day. …show more content…
Another deception the Allies did to trick the Germans was making painted canvases and steel beams to make fake planes and dummy landing zones. They even got an actor to impersonate the British general, so if the Germans flew over their fake base or were close enough to see that the “British general” was there. This was not as easy as dressing up an actor to look like the British general. The actor they got to do this was a man named Clifton James who was from Australia. To make it seem like he was the real British general, he spent some time studying Bernard Montgomery, who was the British general at the time. He studied certain things about Bernard, like how he would act and talk, he even got one of British general Bernards uniforms. All of this really helped Clifton James look like the real British general. All of this was going on leading up to