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TIL that actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was the key person behind a WW2 water-borne deception force that created enough German uncertainty that they held back an entire German Reserve Division in Sicily at the time of the Allied landings there. Called the Beach Jumpers, also known as the "BJ factor".

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