ABSTRACT
The sixth chapter analyzes the operational and strategic deceptions in the central and western Mediterranean from 1944 to the end of the war. The primary focus is two plans: those which supported the offensive against Rome in May 1944 and the amphibious landings in southern France in August 1944. The chapter demonstrates that, much as in the period of 1941–43, strategic deception was useful but incompletely successful, while operational deceptions could have nearly total and extremely valuable successes.
