Well. ErrantX has a good comment on the wider operations. The largest part of Operation Bodyguard was Operation Fortitude which was the Southern England decepti

Well. ErrantX has a good comment on the wider operations. The largest part of Operation Bodyguard was Operation Fortitude which was the Southern England deception. Impact? Thanks to Ultra we have a pretty good idea. Excellent, except probably none at all from inflatables, some from the artificial radio traffic, and the vast majority from the double agents. From Wikipedia: During the course of Fortitude, the almost complete lack of German aerial reconnaissance, together with the absence of uncontrolled German agents in Britain, came to make physical deception almost irrelevant. The unreliability of the "diplomatic leaks" resulted in their discontinuance. The majority of deception was carried out by means of false wireless traffic and through German double agents. The latter proved to be by far the most significant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude#Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Fortitude#Effect