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The author, Sir Anthony Beaver, who is a former army officer, spoke about the creation of a fake army group to deceive the Germans. He highlighted how they created rubber tanks that were parked up on the coasts of Britain, giving the Luftwaffe pilots the impression that there was a large force of tanks there.
Sir Anthony Beaver is the number one best-selling historian in Britain. A former army officer, his books include The Second World War and D-Day, the Battle for Normandy.
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The author, Sir Anthony Beaver, who is a former army officer, spoke about the creation of a fake army group to deceive the Germans. He highlighted how they created rubber tanks that were parked up on the coasts of Britain, giving the Luftwaffe pilots the impression that there was a large force of tanks there.
Sir Anthony Beaver is the number one best-selling historian in Britain. A former army officer, his books include The Second World War and D-Day, the Battle for Normandy.
They had a totally fake army group which was supposedly going to come down the east coast of England from Kent and invade the Pas de Calais. And I mean, it was actually a brilliant success.
This was an era where fake news came into its own to deceive the Germans. They created fake armies, quite literally making tanks out of rubber that were parked up on the coasts of Britain.
So Luftwaffe pilots would fly over the coast and see these huge formations of tanks on the coastline, go back and report back to German headquarters. My God, you know, in Kent there are enormous numbers of tanks. What they didn't realise were that these were fake tanks.
