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- Operation_Accumulator abstract "Operation Accumulator was an Allied naval operation near the Channel Islands on the night of 12/13 June 1944, in support of Operation Overlord, the invasion of France.As part of Operation Fortitude, a series of deception operations had been used to divert attention from the Allied landings by suggesting that a second invasion force was still waiting to land. This caused the defenders to divert their forces from the fighting in Normandy, holding them in reserve for an invasion in the Pas de Calais, to the east.Some days after the initial landings, it was decided to mount a smaller operation to simulate a follow-up landing force heading for Granville, at the western side of the Cotentin Peninsula. The desired effect would be to force the German command to pull units from the front line and redeploy them to protect the western coast.The plan was for two Royal Canadian Navy destroyers, Haida and Huron, to make a series of fake radio transmissions, which would be intercepted. The beginning of the operation went smoothly, with the two ships signalling that the invasion fleet had been delayed by engine problems, and giving a revised plan. However, the radios on the Haida broke down, forcing the Huron to continue alone; the two ships were also spotted by an Allied reconnaissance plane, which radioed back that it had found \"unidentified warships\".The operation was a failure; whilst the signals were made, there was no reaction from the German force. This may have been helped by the Allied air report - a major invasion fleet would have been known to the pilot! - and by a lack of any corroborating evidence; for example, there was no attempt at spoofing radar signals, as had been carried out for the main invasion by Operations Glimmer and Taxable.".
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageExternalLink B-GL-354-003-FP-001.pdf.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageExternalLink comnaveu-8.htm.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageID "11563248".
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageLength "2662".
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageOutDegree "17".
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageRevisionID "679913680".
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Category:Battles_and_conflicts_without_fatalities.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Category:Military_history_of_the_Channel_Islands_during_World_War_II.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Category:Naval_battles_and_operations_of_World_War_II.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Category:Operation_Overlord.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Category:World_War_II_deception_operations.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Channel_Islands.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Cotentin_Peninsula.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink D-Day_naval_deceptions.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Deception.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Granville,_Manche.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink HMCS_Haida_(G63).
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink HMCS_Huron_(G24).
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Operation_Fortitude.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Operation_Overlord.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Pas-de-Calais.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Canadian_Navy.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageWikiLinkText "Accumulator".
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Allied_Military_Deception_in_World_War_II.
- Operation_Accumulator wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coord_missing.
- Operation_Accumulator subject Category:Battles_and_conflicts_without_fatalities.
- Operation_Accumulator subject Category:Military_history_of_the_Channel_Islands_during_World_War_II.
- Operation_Accumulator subject Category:Naval_battles_and_operations_of_World_War_II.
- Operation_Accumulator subject Category:Operation_Overlord.
- Operation_Accumulator subject Category:World_War_II_deception_operations.
- Operation_Accumulator hypernym Operation.
- Operation_Accumulator type MilitaryConflict.
- Operation_Accumulator type History.
- Operation_Accumulator comment "Operation Accumulator was an Allied naval operation near the Channel Islands on the night of 12/13 June 1944, in support of Operation Overlord, the invasion of France.As part of Operation Fortitude, a series of deception operations had been used to divert attention from the Allied landings by suggesting that a second invasion force was still waiting to land.".
- Operation_Accumulator label "Operation Accumulator".
- Operation_Accumulator sameAs Q7096727.
- Operation_Accumulator sameAs m.02rj8gq.
- Operation_Accumulator sameAs Q7096727.
- Operation_Accumulator wasDerivedFrom Operation_Accumulator?oldid=679913680.
- Operation_Accumulator isPrimaryTopicOf Operation_Accumulator.