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- Operation_Barclay abstract "Operation Barclay was a World War II deception by the Allies in support of Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943.The goal was to deceive the Axis powers as to the location of the Allies' assault across the Mediterranean and to divert the Axis military commands attention and resources. Operation Barclay used bogus troop movements, radio traffic, recruitment of Greek interpreters, and acquisition of Greek maps to indicate an invasion through the Balkans.Operation Barclay created a sham army in the eastern Mediterranean: the "Twelfth Army" consisting of 12 fictitious divisions. Adolf Hitler suspected that the Allies would invade Europe through the Balkans, and Barclay served to reinforce this.As part of Barclay the British also launched "Operation Mincemeat", where faked documents were planted via Spain. To reinforce the impression that an Allied invasion was imminent the Special Operations Executive (SOE), in co-operation with the Greek andartes, mounted "Operation Animals", a series of attacks on rail and road networks.The deception was successful. The German High Command concluded there was a greater concentration of Allied forces in the eastern Mediterranean than was the case and held to this assessment, making subsequent deceptions more credible. German forces in the Balkans were reinforced from 8 to 18 divisions, and the Italian fleet diverted into the Adriatic Sea. The Allied invasion of Sicily thus achieved surprise.The greatly increased number of German occupying forces in Greece resulted in negative consequences for the Greek Resistance. Wide-ranging counterguerrilla operations were carried out, culminating in mass reprisals such as the Massacre of Kalavryta and Distomo massacre.".
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- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Adolf_Hitler.
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- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Allied_invasion_of_Sicily.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Allies_of_World_War_II.
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- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Axis_powers.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Balkans.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Category:Allied_invasion_of_Sicily.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Category:Code_names.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Category:World_War_II_deception_operations.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Counter-insurgency.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Counterguerrilla.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Deception.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Distomo_massacre.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Greek_Resistance.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Jon_Latimer.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Massacre_of_Kalavryta.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Mediterranean.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Mediterranean_Sea.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Oberkommando_der_Wehrmacht.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Operation_Mincemeat.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Regia_Marina.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Special_Operations_Executive.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink Twelfth_Army_(United_Kingdom).
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLink World_War_II.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageWikiLinkText "Operation Barclay".
- Operation_Barclay hasPhotoCollection Operation_Barclay.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Allied_Military_Deception_in_World_War_II.
- Operation_Barclay wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Campaignbox_Invasion_of_Sicily.
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- Operation_Barclay subject Category:Allied_invasion_of_Sicily.
- Operation_Barclay subject Category:Code_names.
- Operation_Barclay subject Category:World_War_II_deception_operations.
- Operation_Barclay hypernym Deception.
- Operation_Barclay type Article.
- Operation_Barclay type Article.
- Operation_Barclay type Invasion.
- Operation_Barclay comment "Operation Barclay was a World War II deception by the Allies in support of Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943.The goal was to deceive the Axis powers as to the location of the Allies' assault across the Mediterranean and to divert the Axis military commands attention and resources.".
- Operation_Barclay label "Operation Barclay".
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- Operation_Barclay sameAs பார்கிளே_நடவடிக்கை.
- Operation_Barclay sameAs Операція_«Барклай».
- Operation_Barclay sameAs Q284269.
- Operation_Barclay sameAs Q284269.
- Operation_Barclay wasDerivedFrom Operation_Barclay?oldid=600902943.
- Operation_Barclay isPrimaryTopicOf Operation_Barclay.