D-Day 75th Anniversary: The "Phantom Army"

ALLIED FORCES CARRIED OUT A MASSIVE DECEPTION CAMPAIGN IN ADVANCE OF D-DAY.

The idea behind the ruse was to trick the Germans into thinking  that the invasion would occur at Pas-de-Calais, the closest French coastline to England.    The Allies used fake  radio transmissions, double agents and even a "phantom army," commanded by American general George S. Patton, to throw the Germans off what was really going to happen.

Many of the tanks, cannons and vehicles German reconnaissance spotted were actually blow up balloons.