Operation Bertram

Operation Bertram was a large-scale deception by the allied forces in Egypt during the Second World War.

Bertram operation was carried out in 1942 under the direction of Bernard Montgomery in the months before the second battle of El Alamein. The operation was developed by Dudley Clarke to deceive Erwin Rommel about the timing and location of the Allied attack. It consisted of physical illusions with dummies and camouflage material, designed and manufactured by the British Middle East Command Camouflage Directorate headed by Geoffrey Barkas. The deceptions were accompanied by electromagnetic deception under the code name "Operation Canwell " with faked radio traffic. The maneuver was planned to make the enemy believe that the attack would take place in the South, far from the coast and its running there road and rail, and about two days later than the real attack.

Dummy tanks on a jeep near Cairo, 1942

Dummy of a water pipeline surgery Diamond

  • Military operation in World War II
  • Africa Campaign
  • 1942
  • Egypt in World War II
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