PLANS AND DECOYS
The Overlord chart
(above) forecasts the
situation two days after
Allied forces landed,
while a map of Utah
Beach (left), based
on aerial photos, was
used to plan landings
there. To divert German
attention from these
real plans, dummy tanks
and planes, like those
pictured to the right,
were placed across from
Calais in the staging area
of the fictional FUSAG.NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY 83KENNETH W. RENDELL, INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR IILIBRARY OF CONGRESS, CT002437A
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