A single paragraph report on German dummy coastal defense positions in Normandy, from Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 51, October 1944. [DISCLAIMER: The following text is taken from the U.S. War Department publication Tactical and Technical Trends. As with all wartime intelligence information, data may be incomplete or inaccurate. No attempt has been made to update or correct the text. Any views or opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of the website.]

GERMAN DUMMY COASTAL POSITIONS Dummy and alternate emplacements, common in German defense systems, were found among the coastal defenses on the Norman coast. Rough logs, covered with camouflage netting. simulated big guns in the dummy positions. In attempting to mislead Allied naval gunfire, the Germans used not only the dummy guns for deception, but moved coastal real guns out of open, concrete emplacements and casemates to open emplacements hidden in hedgerows about 1½ miles from their original positions.

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