Good thinking, applying a little math. Yeah, a 17 year-old officer on Bradley’s staff“If Downs is 90 now he would have been 17 in 1944 when he was an officer on Bradley’s staff. Hmmmmm.....”
Trouble is, the math can’t be airtight since the article gives the age only as "90-plus years” - which could be anything up to 99 years, I suppose - and that would allow for his having been 26 at the time, I guess.And how likely is it that there was a Nazi spy in Eisenhower’s staff? A spy high up enough to have known about the secret mission? Somehow any spies missed out on important details about, I don’t know, D-Day, but a spy knew all about Miller’s alleged mission?There’s a Hunton Leache Downs in Asheville who is 98.It must be him.19 posted on 5/23/2017, 2:04:55 AM by PLMerite
Yes, farfetched IMHO.Tho Hitler bought “Bodyguard” hook, line, and sinker. Interesting thing is that “Bodyguard” was never repudiated - the cover story of an enormous invasion planned at Calais remained operative until it was moot. And that was not until long after June 6, 1944. Hitler never said, “I was wrong about Calais” - and nobody ever pointed it out to him. Wish I could recall the name of the book that made that point . . .
Could it be The Man Without a Name?
Garbo?