[HN Gopher] D-Day Psyop (2014)
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D-Day Psyop (2014)
Author : mmastrac
Score : 80 points
Date : 2023-06-04 15:04 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (psywarrior.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (psywarrior.com)
| cobertos wrote:
| > My favorite story of the entire PSYOP campaign concerns this
| warning leaflet. The time and place of the invasion was top
| secret. It was probably guarded more than any other D-Day secret.
| It could mean the life or death of 100,000 men. If this warning
| leaflet should somehow get out; perhaps from a worker hiding a
| valued souvenir, the location of the 16 towns on the leaflet
| would tell the Germans exactly where the invasion fleet was
| headed. How do you guarantee that this secret is kept? Easy! You
| lock all the printers up and basically refuse to let them leave.
| The printers were ordered into the Sun plant on 1 June to prepare
| the warning leaflet. The place was sealed and the managers,
| engravers, printers and workers were locked inside for the next
| five days. On 6 June, the doors were unlocked; the workers
| streamed out, saw the sun, and heard that France had been
| invaded.
|
| Was wondering how they had done that without giving away
| strategy. Never would have thought of such a simple solution
| webdoodle wrote:
| I've never heard that before, I'm sure the propagandists
| covered that up too.
| hef19898 wrote:
| What I learned from the folks over at WW2 in Real Time /
| TimeGhost History (check them out, they have dedicated D-Day
| channel with a 24 hour real time coverage coming up on June
| 6th), is the following: Someone with access to Overlord code
| words inadvertidly leaked them to authors of cross words. As a
| result, everything from Neptune over beach names to Overlord
| were solutions in cross-words. The leaker was arrested and
| interogated, upon release hebtold his collegue to burn the
| notebook containing those words. Only years after the death of
| the arrested, did the other person come clean (details on the
| WW2 channel). Truely crazy stuff!
|
| I'm curious of their coverage of Operation Bagration, and the
| Soviet shell games around that. After all, they fooled the
| Germans to the point of stripping Army Group center of
| basically all armor! Another fun fact: Gehlen, the guy chosen
| to create the post-war BND, was a big head in Fremde Heere Ost.
| And as such directly involved in each and every German intel
| blunder on the eastern front. Only thing he had going for him:
| he was a staunch anti-communist.
| omnibrain wrote:
| > Only thing he had going for him: he was a staunch anti-
| communist.
|
| And he had hid tons of intel and had loyalty of some
| potentially useful people so he had something to bargain
| with.
| hef19898 wrote:
| Connections never seem to hurt, do they?
| [deleted]
| gramie wrote:
| The "colleague" was one of his students. Apparently the kids
| had lots of interactions with American GIs who were stationed
| in the area, and picked up code words from conversations they
| heard. When their headmaster, who created the crosswords,
| asked them for words that would fit his skeleton, some of the
| words they suggested were these top-secret ones. The
| headmaster had no idea of their provenance.
|
| https://www.historic-
| uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Cross...
| morkalork wrote:
| Can't delete this.
| yareally wrote:
| Tomorrow is the anniversary of D-Day
| AlbertCory wrote:
| I think everyone's seen this video of the inflatable "tanks":
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmKeaHM8ck
|
| I wouldn't be surprised if tricks like this were still being used
| in Ukraine, given that drone photography is a big thing.
| AxiomaticSpace wrote:
| I saw this on reddit today
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| https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/141n...
|
| Unfortunately it's actually a music video prop not a combat
| vehicle, but a man can dream
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