Operation Titanic: How the SAS and hundreds of fake paratroopers tricked the Nazis on D-Day

Operation Titanic: How the SAS and hundreds of fake paratroopers tricked the Nazis on D-Day

On the night of June 5, 1944, as tens of thousands of Allied troops prepared to storm the beaches of Normandy, a handful of British Special Air Service commandos were parachuting into Nazi-occupied France alongside hundreds of straw-stuffed burlap dummies. This was Operation Titanic, one of the more absurd operations of the war. Yet Titanic, along with other deceptions, tricked the German high command into believing the real invasion of “Fortres…