Chapter 164: The Normandy Front (2)

On the Soviet-German battlefield on the Eastern Front, the Soviet army actively cooperated, and before June 1947, it did not launch a new offensive, but only frequently transferred troops, so that the German army could not judge the Soviet army's intentions and did not dare to draw troops easily. After the Normandy landings, the Soviet army launched three large-scale offensive campaigns in Karelia, Belarus, and Western Ukraine, firmly attracting the German army on the Eastern Front.

The second and most crucial purpose of the "Defender" plan was to convince the Germans that the Normandy landings were nothing more than a feint to deplete their reserves prematurely. However, a person with a little military common sense only needs to find that the first echelon of the Normandy landing had the size of 8 divisions, it is enough to be sure that this is the main attack. And Beavan wanted to create a miracle in the impossible, and if it could not convince the Germans, he would at least disturb the judgment of the Germans and delay the Germans in making the correct conclusions as much as possible. To this end, Beavan has designed dozens of affiliate programs

The most important of these was the "Mercury Plan": in the south-east of England, a fictitious unit was created under the name of the First Army Group of the United States. First of all, a special organization was set up to draw up this fake message between the units of the army group, which ranged from strategic and tactical discussions and studies to requests for the supply of cigarettes and field rations to toilet paper. More than 300 telegraph operators of the 310th Communications Battalion of the US Army and a battalion of the Royal Communications Regiment of the British Army disguised themselves as radio communications between group armies, corps, divisions, regiments, and battalions, and carried out contact in strict accordance with the daily communication volume of units at the same level. In order to make wireless calls more realistic, the U.S. military also deliberately recruited some people from the Browede Theater Company, who are good at simulating the accents of various U.S. states, to have conversations on wireless calls. In addition, a fake command was set up in Dover, high-power radio stations were used to communicate with subordinate units, and even some of the orders of the 21st Army Group Command of the real landing force were first transmitted by telephone to the dummy command in Dover.

It is then sent out by the radio station of the fake headquarters. -- The German radio interception and positioning units measured these Allied radio communications, and thus judged that the main direction of attack of the Allied landing was Calais, because the Allied headquarters was in Dover, opposite Calais. Secondly, in the southeast of England, military camps, warehouses, roads, and oil pipelines were built, and Hollywood prop masters set up fake material hoards, fake airports, fake planes, fake tanks, fake cannons, and realistically created oil traces on the river surface of warships and tracks left by tanks on roads. Among them, the Dover fake oil terminal, designed by a famous professor from the Royal Design Institute in the United Kingdom, is a must, and this fake oil terminal covers an area of 7. Eight square kilometers, "oil pipelines", "oil storage tanks", "power stations", "parking lots" are all available, and even the fire brigade is built, all of which are built from scaffolding, fiberboard and old cement pipes, all of which have guards standing guard, and the blower kicks up dust during the day, and the smoke of the fire is lit at night. Eisenhower also came to inspect from time to time, and the mayor of Dover gave a speech about the project, which convinced the German army. In addition, some units that did not have combat missions in the early days of the landing were transferred here to be stationed for drills. That's it, it's true, false, false, false, and real.

In addition, the German reconnaissance planes, which had painstakingly broken through the Allied air defenses, were allowed to reconnoiter and photograph, creating the false impression that the Allies had assembled the First Army Group, which consisted of about 40 divisions, in the southeast of England. As for the commander of the landing ground forces, it is well known that the Allied generals who can take on this post are either Lieutenant General Patton of the United States Army or Lieutenant General Montgomery of the British Army. On January 26, 1944, Patton arrived in the south-east of England to inspect troops, meet with local officials, and visit celebrities. His whereabouts were constantly reported by the press. In October 1947, Patton spoke at the opening of a club: "After the war, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union will rule the world...... but when the newspaper published it, the Soviet Union was missing, and a diplomatic storm was triggered. It was puzzling that it was the eve of the landing, and the British press censorship was so strict that it was impossible for such an omission to make a speech that would affect the unity of the allies. The only explanation is that it was an elaborate hoax designed to reinforce the impression that Barton was present in the South East of England.

As a result, the Germans thought that Patton, as the commander of the landing force, was frequently present in the southeast of England, which naturally meant that the landing would be in Calais. The real landing force commander Montgomery was at the headquarters in Portsmouth to plan and study the battle plan, and Bivan also selected James, an army lieutenant who looked like Montgomery, to live by Montgomery's side for several months, to learn in detail about Montgomery's likes and dislikes, habits, and other details of life in all aspects of clothing, food, housing, and transportation, and then disguised himself as Montgomery to visit Gibraltar and Cairo, creating the false impression that Montgomery was not in Britain. This led the Germans to deduce that Montgomery would not have been the commander of the landing when he was not in England at this time. The "Mercury Plan" made the German High Command understand that in the southeast of England, the Allies had gathered about 40 divisions to form the First Army Group under the command of Patton, and that the main direction of attack for the landing would inevitably be Calais.

"Project Glimmer": electronic jamming and electronic deception carried out by the air forces of the allies. According to the special order of the Supreme Command, the large radio interception and decipherment base set up by the German army in The Hague, the Netherlands, in August 1946 was first violently bombed, completely destroying it and eliminating the threat to the radio communications of the Allied forces. Secondly, in the large-scale air raid on the German radar stations, the nine German radar stations north of the Seine were deliberately not bombed, so that the Germans could use these radar stations to discover the fake fleet sent by the Allies before the landing, which sailed to Calais three hours before the landing, and consisted of 18 small boats, each of which towed a raft and was equipped with a large balloon with a diameter of 29 feet, and a radar transmitter was installed in the balloon, and the radar signal emitted was equivalent to the radar signal of a landing ship of the Vendon class. Over the fleet there were dozens of planes throwing tin chaff as they flew. These measures were reflected on the screens of the German radar stations as a large landing flotilla heading for Calais under the cover of a large number of aircraft. In order to further confuse the German army, the Air Force made a special provision in the combat operations before the campaign: Whenever one reconnaissance plane is sent to Normandy or drops one ton**, two reconnaissance planes or two tons** must be sent to Calais

The use of double agents is also an important part of Project Guardian. Thanks to the excellent work of the British counter-espionage agency, all German spy organizations in Britain were cracked soon after the start of the war, and the German expatriates were quarantined and examined, and the enemy agents in Britain were completely eliminated. Although the German intelligence agencies continued to send agents to infiltrate and infiltrate Britain, the British counterintelligence agency was highly efficient, and the British currency and weights and measures were completely different from those on the European continent, making it easy for spies entering Britain to be detected, so Germany has not been able to carry out intelligence work in Britain. The British set up a special "Double Cross Committee" to turn arrested German spies into double agents in British service. After a long period of patient and meticulous training, he finally has 4 double agents who are believed by German intelligence: "Jiabao", "Zhenbao", and "Sanwa".

car" and "Brewster". Among them, the most trusted and influential in Germany is "Jiabao". After the war, the "Double Cross Committee" considered "Garbo" to be their greatest success. "Garbo" was a Spaniard, whose real name was Juan Puchor Garcia, who twice asked to join British intelligence in January 1941 and December 1941, but was denied.

He defected to the German intelligence agencies and was ordered to infiltrate Britain through Portugal, but after he arrived in Portugal, he lied that he had entered England, and according to some newspapers and magazines published in England, he had a talent for fabricating information, and most of it was correct, so he was deeply respected and trusted by Germany. It was not until February 1946 that Britain discovered that the Luftwaffe Navy and Air Force had launched a large-scale attack on an allied convoy bound for Malta, but there was no such fleet at all.

A steady stream of true and false information was sent to Germany, thus establishing the status of an ace agent in the German intelligence services, receiving the task of identifying the First Army Group [that is, the fictitious troops of the "Mercury Plan"), and taking the opportunity to report the strength of the First Army Group and other information. Half an hour before the landing on June 6, Garbo reported to Germany that the Allies were attacking Normandy. - This time was carefully designed by Bivan, and Germany did not have time to react when it received the information, on the contrary, it raised the status of "Garbo". By the most critical moment after the landing on 9 June, "Garbo" sent a 120-minute report to Germany, reporting in detail that the 40 divisions of the First Army Group were entering a state of imminent combat, that a large number of landing ships were gathering in Dover, and that the real landing was about to begin. This information seriously interfered with the correct analysis and judgment of the German high command on the battle situation. As the highest achievement of double agents, both warring sides praised "Garbo", and German intelligence agencies sent "Garbo" 30,000 yuan

A bonus of dollars, and he was also awarded the Iron Cross. And Britain awarded him honorary citizenship. After the war, fearing reprisals from the remnants of Nazi Germany, he lived incognito in Venezuela with his wife and children until 1984, when he was already a dying old man. In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Normandy, he not only received a commendation from the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace, but also came to Normandy Beach on June 6 to attend the commemoration ceremony. Looking back, he is proud of what he did, because it was the lies he and his colleagues had woven that saved the lives of thousands of Allied soldiers, and he told reporters: "If our plan fails, the Germans will launch a counterattack, and then many things will probably be destroyed." ”

The treasure was a French woman of Russian descent, Lily Seyver, who gave a detailed report on the situation of the First Army Group and won the trust of the German intelligence services, which also specifically asked her to go to Spain and provide her with a radio station for direct contact.

The "tricycle" is the prototype of Dusko Popov, who was born in a famous Yugoslav family, and the famous 007 James Bond.