Inflatable tanks, fake aircraft, and double agents became some of the Allies’ most powerful weapons against Nazi Germany. By creating the illusion of massive invasion forces, Allied intelligence kept ...

It was 75 years ago that the Allied forces undertook Operation Overlord, the codename for the invasion for the Battle of Normandy, which involved the D-Day landings that were actually codenamed ...

Once-secret photos reveal the extraordinary lengths armies will go to fool the enemy. 1 Military deception is probably as old as war itself, but the earliest photos of dummy weapons date from the 1861 ...

Deception played a big part in the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. From dummy tanks and landing craft to the creation of a “ghost army,” these are some of the remarkable tactics that ...

Since World War II, militaries have used “dummy” tanks to trick the enemy in many ways, and the deceptive technology has only become more advanced. The ongoing fighting in Ukraine has seen some of the ...

Dummy M4 Sherman tank of the type used by the Ghost Army. It weighed 93 pounds fully inflated. Courtesy of the National Archives/Princeton Architectural Press Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers ...