How a doppelgänger fooled the Nazis

MONTY'S DOUBLE : 1946

Feldmarschall Montgomerys offizieller Doppelgänger, Leutnant Clifton James, der nach Gibraltar flog und sich als Montgomery ausgab, um die Deutschen kurz vor dem D-Day (den Landungen in der Normandie) zu täuschen. Credit: PA Images via Getty Images

D-Day on June 6, 1944 on the beaches of Normandy was preceded by a deception planned down to the last detail, in which an Australian actor played the role of a lifetime.



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