The Greatest Military Con in History? Operation Fortitude was the brilliant deception plan that fooled Hitler and protected the D-Day invasion, saving countless lives.

In 1944, the Allies created a massive, non-existent army—complete with inflatable tanks, dummy aircraft, and even General George S. Patton as its fake commander—to convince the Germans the main invasion would hit Pas-de-Calais, not Normandy.

Double agents like Juan Pujol García (codename Garbo) fed the Nazis hundreds of false reports, ensuring that when D-Day arrived on June 6th, the Wehrmacht held its best forces back. The deception worked: Fortitude sealed the fate of WWII without firing a single shot.

Learn how lies and illusions changed history!