Operation Quicksilver

In World War II, Operation Quicksilver (Allies, 1944) was a sub-plan of Operation Fortitude, the 1944 deception plan. Quicksilver created a fictional "First United States Army Group" commanded by General Patton that supposedly would invade France at the Pas-de-Calais. American troops used false signals and decoy installations and phony equipment to deceive German observation aircraft and radio intercept operators. See Operation Bodyguard.

Operation Quicksilver (United States, 1978 - 1979) was a nuclear test series of eighteen blasts conducted at the Nevada Test Site in 1978 and 1979. This preceded Tinderbox, and followed Crescent[?]. The individual tests were:

3. Operation Quicksilver (United States, 1990s) was a plan to reduce the size of the United States Army in the early 1990s as a result of the end of the Cold War. A number of incentives such as early retirement were used to reduce the number of soldiers on active duty by a third.