LESSON TERM EURO WEDNESDAY THE 14 TH AND FRIDAY THE 16 TH OF OCTOBER

 

Lesson term euro Friday the 16 th of october

OPERATION BODYGUARD

Goal : how to fool the enemy = the foe

 

WORDS OF THE DAY :

BE JAMMED ( être coincé)

SPURIOUS= FALSE

Mislead = deceive = con = bamboozle

A barrack ( un baraquement)

 

STEP 1 RECAP ON THE ATLANTIC WALL

1.       Brainstorming

2.       How would you call that ?

 

STEP 2 NOW THAT YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED YOUR PLAN OF ACTION YOUR MISSION IS TO FOOL THE ENEMY. SO WHAT WOULD YOU DO ?

 

 

 

 

 

PLAN  1 OPERATION FORTITUDE : A MAP

OPERATION FORTITUDE  is a fictional army .it is part of the overall operation coded BODYGUARD

OPERATION FORTITUDE IS MEANT TO DECEIVED THE GERMAN ARMY INTO BELIEVING THAT THE LANDING WOULD TAKE PLACE IN CALAIS

SO THE ALLIES INVENTED ALL SORTS OF DECEPTIONS TO CON THE GERMANS

Under the Fortitude "story", the Allies pretended they intended to invade both Norway and Pas de Calais.

Fortitude North was aimed at German forces in Scandinavia and based around the fictional British Fourth Army, based in Edinburgh. The Allies created the illusion of the army via fake radio traffic (Operation Skye) and leaks through double agents.^[14][15]

Fortitude South employed similar deception in the south of England, threatening an invasion at Pas de Calais by the fictional 1st U.S. Army Group (FUSAG) led by U.S. General George Patton.

 

1.A VIDEO OF THE SECRET WEAPONS : the inflatable devices :WHAT DID YOU UNDERSTAND ?

A video showing the inflatable devices : (1) 1944 D-day Secret Gadgets! - YouTube

 

ASSIGNED QUIZ 

https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/6accafd8cad6b5070d44bbf3/watch

 

PLAN 3 READ ON DIFFERENT OTHER TRICKS THEY USED

TEAM A ENIGMA AND ULTRA

CF VIDEO IN ORDI  d-day-the-secret-war-extra-history-2  at 6’ 53 +

TEAM B OPERATION TITANIC

Operation Titanic was a series of military deceptions carried out by the Allied Nations during the Second World War. The operation formed part of Operation Bodyguard, the cover plan for the Normandy landings in 1944. Titanic was carried out on 5–6 June 1944 by the Royal Air Force and the Special Air Service. The objective of the operation was to drop 500 dummy parachutists in places other than the real Normandy drop zones, to deceive the German defenders into believing that a large force had landed, drawing their troops away from the beachheads and strategic sites such as Caen.

Easily my favorite of the D-Day deceptions, dolls or paradummies were dropped in large clusters further inland, complete with their own little parachutes, to make it look like paratroopers. The Germans would spot these figures from a distance and immediately head toward where they seemed to be landing. Then they would find heaps of these “Ruperts.” (The British called them “Ruperts” and the Americans called them “Oscars.”) Then, when the Nazis would see actual paratroopers coming down, they might not charge over right away or at all, assuming they were being duped by paradummies again.

 

PLAN 4 TEAM C :  CHAFF

The difference in technical abilities between WWI and WWII is pretty staggering and it changed the look of the battlefield in an extreme measure. However, aircraft radar technology was still pretty primitive during the Second World War. In order to mess with the radar on enemy aircraft, a cloud of small pieces of aluminum was dropped into the area. The aircraft radar would simply bounce off the reflection of these foil pieces (called chaff) and the aircraft on the other side of the chaff would basically become invisible.

The “window” of chaff was used by both sides during WWII, neither side realizing that the other one had the capability.

TEAM D THE CODE BREAKER

Navajo Code Word Dictionary

English Word	Navajo Code Word	Literal Translation
Airplanes	Wo-tah-de-ne-ih	Air Corps
Dive Bombers	Gini	Chicken Hawk
Torpedo Plane	Tas-chizzie	Swallow
Observation Plane	Ne-as-jah	Owl

 

 

HOMEWORK

 DO THE QUIZ AND SEND A SCREENSHOT OF YOUR RESULTS TO MRS DEVIENNE FOR A MARK.

THE QUIZ IS HERE : 

https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/6accafd8cad6b5070d44bbf3/watch

You have up to the end of the holidays

But then you will have a zero.

Do not forget to take notes on the video