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In April 1944, two British radio operators sat in a truck in the Scottish Highlands, creating the radio traffic of an entire field army. They transmitted orders for the fictitious British Fourth Army—100,000 men supposedly training in Scotland for an invasion of Norway. They simulated unit communications, logistics requests, training schedules, even soccer matches and wedding announcements. German signals intelligence stations in Norway intercepted every transmission and reported to Berlin: a massive invasion force was assembling in Scotland.

Operation Fortitude North was the lesser-known half of the D-Day deception plan. While fake tanks in Dover suggested invasion at Calais (Fortitude South), fake radio traffic in Scotland suggested invasion through Norway (Fortitude North). The deception succeeded completely. Germany kept 27 divisions in Scandinavia—troops that could have reinforced Normandy—because two radio operators convinced them an entire army was preparing to invade from Scotland.

This is the story of a war fought entirely with radio signals, where disciplinary hearings and soccer scores became strategic weapons, and where two men in a truck tied down 300,000 German soldiers through nothing but creative radio chatter.