Operation Waterfall was part of

Operation Barclay Operation Barclay was a World War II deception by the Allies of World War II, Allies in support of Allied invasion of Sicily, Operation Husky, the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943. The goal was to deceive the Axis powers as to the locati ...

, 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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