Posted on 05/04/2019 10:47:25 AM PDT by PROCON
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That’s true. And they kept the citizenry in the dark. But when China-based bombers started hitting industrial sites, rumors started and the Tarawa/Saipan invasions so close to the homeland made it plain to the citizenry they’d been lied to massively.
I couldn’t find the article again. In essence words like Omaha, Neptune, Overlord, and Mulberry, all code names used for the Normandy invasion, were popping up in the London Telegraph newspaper just prior to the invasion.
British intelligence went after the writer of the crossword puzzles, who was nothing more than a teacher at a boy’s school. He was rather indignant, but no one could explain the coincidental nature of the clues.
Or was it just a coincidence? It turned out recently that the teacher often used his students to suggest words for his puzzles, and put them in the crossword. Many of the students were dependents of American military. The kids may have picked up the words from parental conversations and passed the on the the teacher as suggested puzzle answers.
Thanks. I vaguely remember a Brit tv show disclosing the crossword connection.
In WWII and for a few years afterwards, anyone exposing true Brit Intel secrets, often had a visit from the Brit’s Special Branches.
If you and your family were still alive after the first visit, you didn’t want them back for a second and final visit.
Or was it just a coincidence?
Jethro Gibbs rule #39.
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It’s interesting how US and UK brains made such an impact on the war without firing a shot. I’m thinking the Enigma machine that deciphered German codes and the work of the Naval Intel guys who assembled the clues to Midway.
Add to that the Navajo code talkers who spoke a language the Japanese would have been unfamiliar with, using code words on top of that.
Heh. As an aside, I’m glad I double-checked. Instead of Enigma, I originally had it as MK Ultra. MK Ultra was very different! LOL
WWII, the last good war.
You’ll hear the same thing from Judge Judy. LOL
“Homer” won a Academy Award for that movie. He was a Paratrooper and lost his arms in a training accident if I recall correctly.
I am going to celebrate the 75th anniversary of DDay by remembering my now deceased Father In-Law who went in the night before on a glider....was injured by 88 shrapnel around the hedgerows and also did a glider insert in Operation Market Garden.
I vaguely remember a story about an American officer who was throwing around some inside knowlege at a London cocktail party, who was immediately fired and sent back to the States.
Overlord was such a gigantic undertaking many people knew vital secrets, even on a need to know basis. It's a miracle the Germans never figured it out, but then they didn't want to figure it out. The Fuehrer and the smart money were on Calais, not Normandy.
Wasn’t Patton down south with a fake army?
Even with Patton in the US dog house
for slapping that coward, Hitler didn’t
believe Patton would be kept out
of the invasion.
Me neither.
A fictitious army, First US Army Group (FUSAG) was formed with Patton in command. They were located in SE England, across from the Pas de Calais. There were rubber tanks and trucks and lots of fake radio traffic. It was all designed to make the Germans think Calais would be the target and not Normandy (or any of the other half dozen possibilities). They believed Patton would lead the invasion, as he had the American invasion of Sicily. Even better, they knew as a historian Patton would advocate for a landing at Calais (which at some point he did).
Patton knew from the beginning of 1944 that he would be given command of Third Army and lead the Normandy breakout when it happened, but that was another secret that never got out.
The operation succeeded brilliantly. The German 15th Army was still sitting in far northern France when Patton began his dash to the German border. They never saw action in Normandy.
Ike's discipline of Patton is often misinterpreted. Ike wanted and needed Patton in France because he knew Patton was his best field army commander. His letter of reprimand and orders for an apology tour were intended to preempt harsher punishment from Washington, which probably would have included orders back to the States and no further role as a combat commander. At the end of the day, Marshall accepted Ike's actions as adequate and resisted calls from politicians for harsher punishment. Of course, the Germans thought the entire affair was ridiculous.
Similarly, an officer, can’t think of his name, was at a meeting in Europe where a low level bombing operation was being planned. He spoke up and said it was suicide. When the Colonel pushed back, the officer said he’d be glad to lead the mission if the Colonel sat in the plane with him.
The mission was scrubbed, but the Colonel was getting ready to hammer down on the officer. A high official got wind of what was happening and transferred the officer back to the States before the Colonel could act.
The officer was assigned the task of founding and training what would become the Navy’s UDT, later the SEALS. providing invaluable service in Tarawa and beyond.
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