In Northern Europe, Britain and the United States also planned and organized the "Northern Perseverance" program, and in May 1941, the British and American foreign ministers visited the Soviet Union, and they joined forces with Soviet intelligence agencies to create the illusion of attacking Norway and Sweden. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Britain established the 4th Army Command in Edinburgh, Scotland, with General MacLeod as its commander, but he actually had only more than 20 officers and more than 500 telegraph operators, who were mainly responsible for communicating radio contacts with similar false commands of the Soviet Army, and camouflaging radio communications at the army, corps, division, and regiment levels within this group army.

The press also actively cooperated, and some published reports on the football match of the Fourth Group Army, while others even carried out a special report on the "One Day with the Army" of the Seventh Army, which belongs to the Fourth Group Army. The Germans, with their excellent radio interception and positioning technology, quickly determined the location of this fake army group headquarters and also sent planes to bomb it.

The British army also issued engine maintenance manuals for polar regions to troops stationed in Scotland, supplemented skis and snowboards and other equipment in severe cold areas, and conducted ski training. It looks like he's going to fight in Northern Europe.

In addition, the British BBC radio station broadcast to Norway and Sweden asked the people of the two countries to prepare for air defense and stock up as much as possible on food, fuel, medicine and other necessities.

As a result of these measures, the Germans deployed 13 divisions, including 1 panzer, in Norway and Sweden to cope with the Allied offensive.

Of course, Rommel will not fall for the Allies, he has seen all the small actions of Britain and the United States many times in later generations, in order to cooperate with the performance of Britain and the United States, Rommel decided to plan the plan.

He pretended to send planes to bomb this false enemy headquarters, and the thirteen German divisions deployed in Norway, each division left a training supplementary regiment, and a training supplementary regiment numbered about 2,000, and thirteen divisions were thirteen regiments.

These thirteen regiments all used the name of their division headquarters to send reports in the Engel code, which was common to Germany, and the elite German main forces of the thirteen divisions had been secretly transferred to the Ardennes Forest by various means and hidden.

The only people who remained in Norway were more than 20,000 reserve troops, whose task was to indiscriminately replenish their numbers and defend the more than 350 fortresses built by the German army in Norway.

And there is still German naval support in the Norwegian seas, including more than 80 submarines left by the German army, and it is not so easy for the Allies to land in Norway.

On the Soviet-German battlefield on the Eastern Front, the Soviet Army actively cooperated, and before August 1941, the Soviet Union launched several large-scale offensives in succession, so that the Soviet Army firmly attracted the German Army on the Eastern Front.

Fortunately, Rommel's policy of national equality and full trust in the Russians who opposed Stalin's iron-blooded rule led to the birth of the Russian Liberation Army.

These are 1.5 million soldiers of a fighting race who are not afraid of death and have a great hatred for the Stalin regime! This gave Rommel the opportunity to draw two million elite German troops from the Soviet front.

(There were also 1.5 million elite German troops, more than 1 million Allied troops, more than 1 million Russian People's Liberation Army, 7.8 million Ukrainian People's Liberation Army, 5.6 million People's Liberation Army of other ethnic groups, and more than 5 million German troops in the Soviet Union.) ）

Although most of the more than 5 million troops were miscellaneous troops, there was no problem in blocking Stalin's counterattack, so Rommel was not worried about Stalin's troubles.

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.

Britain and the United States, on the other hand, wanted to create a miracle in the midst of the impossible, and if they could not convince the German army, they would at least disturb the judgment of the German army and delay the German army's correct conclusion as much as possible. To this end, the United Kingdom and the United States have designed up to 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, and 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 transmitted by telephone to the dummy command in Dover, and then sent by the radio of the fake headquarters.

Secondly, in the southeastern region 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 stains on the river surface of warships and tracks left by tanks on roads.

Among them, the Dover fake oil terminal designed by the famous professor of the Royal Design Institute of the United Kingdom is a must, this fake oil terminal covers an area of 7.8 square kilometers, "oil pipelines", "oil storage tanks", "power stations", "parking lots" are readily available, and even the fire brigade has it, all of which are built by scaffolding, fiberboard and old cement pipes, all of which have guards standing guard, and blowers raise dust during the day, and smoke from fires at night, a scene of intense construction.

Eisenhower also came to inspect from time to time, and the mayor of Dover gave a speech about the project, and they just wanted to convince 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.

In this way, the German reconnaissance planes, which had worked hard to break through the Allied air defense line, were allowed to reconnoiter and photograph, creating the false impression that the Allies had assembled about 40 divisions of the First Army Group in southeast 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 26 April, Patton arrived in the south-east of England to inspect troops, meet with local officials, and visit celebrities.

His whereabouts were constantly reported in the press, and Patton spoke at the opening of a club: "After the war, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union will rule the world...... but when the newspaper published it, the Soviet Union was missing, causing a diplomatic storm.

…… (To be continued.) )