Operation Waterfall was part of

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, which was a deception to try to trick the Germans into thinking the Allies would land elsewhere in the Mediterranean other than

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, where they were going to land. It involved creating a decoy army in the eastern Mediterranean to make it look like they were targeting the

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. The Anglo-American force also created some dummy inflatable tanks and vehicles.Macintyre (May 2010), p. 271.

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* * Operation Mincemeat

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