Good thing CNN wasn’t around back then, they would have gladly shown the training live and beam the pictures to Berlin.
No CNN would show the wounded and dieing men in theaters around the UK and US.
I agree. Just imagine if it were 1945 right now. Headline by NYT:
“DAWN INVASION IMMINENT ON NORMANDY.’
subtitle: Patton as decoy, OVERLORD secret codename for invasion”
“In other news: Secret bomb being built in Los Alamos against the Japs. More secrets to be published in the afternoon..”