[Steve Van Doorn]

Any ideas when D day is?

The Nazi's during WWII knew they where coming they even knew approximately when they where coming as the ships full of troops where filled and ready to go.
They didn't expect it would come between two storms.

Wray going to all the of offices isn't enough to say it's soon (if there is a date set)
There might be something to give a general idea of the expected date.

Thanks

[haffast]

“””Any ideas when D day is?”””

Maybe it was the day when the House passed the funding bill containing money for the wall???

[bagster]

Any ideas when D day is?

Funny that you should mention WWII, goodman. Ponder this.

Patton’s Ghost Army

(excerpt)

The army General George Patton fielded for the 1944 Normandy D-Day Invasion was unlike any other. It was a complete and unabashed fake.

(snip)

From a distance, an English farmer could see that sometime overnight a column of Sherman tanks had parked on his field. One of his bulls also noticed the American tanks and was eyeing one of them warily. Suddenly, the bull lunged. The farmer braced himself for the sight of one of his prized bovines cracking its skull against armor plating.

The bull struck the tank at top speed, and with a lazy hiss of air, the Sherman deflated into a pile of olive-drab rubber sheeting. The bull and the farmer had stumbled onto one of the most elaborate deceptions in the history of warfare: the creation of a phantom army to divert attention from the real Allied army poised to invade France in the spring of 1944.

(snip)

The Germans took all these possible scenarios seriously and maintained garrisons in all those regions. This helped the Allies in two ways: the garrisons guarding the possible invasion sites were removed from the fighting in the Soviet Union, which helped the Russians—and they were not concentrated in northern France, where the Allies really were going to attack.

Something to think about.

Bagster

[yawningotter]

One thing that the Germans got wrong about D-Day was the timing. They were expecting the invasion to come when there was a high tide at dawn. The actual plan was to attack on a rising tide. That, combined with the weather, led to the Germans being caught by surprise. June 6 was not a good day for the invasion, so the Germans relaxed a little. Most of the generals were not even with their units. Many were at a map exercise. Others detoured through Paris on the way to the exercise. Rommel went to his wife’s birthday party on the way to beg Hitler for more troops. If Trump knows D-Day history, he will do something similar. Go against what the derps expect and take action when they have let their guard down a little bit.

Another bit touched on by others is the Ghost Army. The importance of that was to keep the Germans believing that Normandy was a diversion, and that the main attack would come at Calais with over twenty divisions. That diversion kept the best German divisions, as well as most of the Panzers, immobilized. Most of the German Fifteenth Army did not see action until Market-Garden in September(but that is another story). The relevant point here is to keep the enemy fixated on what they see as a greater threat while hitting them and advancing your plan somewhere else.

[ichabod1]

I figure the reason it’s important is that he is giving briefings that cannot be written down.