onored at the fact that he was looked so highly upon by the president and
appointed four star General Eisenhower to head this amphibious invasion.
In May, while millions of troops and equipment poured into the area of southern
Britain. The allies were under the leadership of Lieut. General George C. Patton Jr. to
command a "largely phantom First United States Army group" (Friedrich 14). Patton
created a false radio system, rubber tanks, landing crafts, dummy warehouses, and
barracks away from the true area of invasion as a decoy to keep the enemy armies and
Hitler confused about the actual setting where the invasion w
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