Photos taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps and their British counterparts in Spring 1944 of fake vehicles and other equipment designed to trick the Germans into believing that the First U.S. Army Group (FUSAG) was a real force preparing to invade France at the Pas de Calais.
The scheme – involving the construction of inflatable tanks, wooden artillery pieces, and vehicles, even aircraft, fabricated from other materials – was part of Operation Fortitude, the over-arching plan to convince the Wehrmacht into diverting resources from Normandy, the actual area picked for the D-Day landings.
German aerial reconnaissance in the months before D-Day.
