The Fake Army That Helped Defeat the Nazis in WWII

The ultimate deception of World War II

Inflatable dummy tank (1944). Source: Historycollection.com (via Alchetron)

The Allied invasion of Europe was the largest assault by sea in the history of warfare. It came at a dreadful cost in men and machines, with over 10,000 Allied soldiers killed or wounded just on the first day of the invasion of Normandy, June 6th, 1944. It would have been a much worse toll, however, without a…