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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: Duckman31998
Date: June 5, 2015, 5:20 pm
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My post:
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One of the things that has always impressed me about Operation
Overlord was that it depended heavily on deception, namely
making the Germans think the invasion would take place at Pas de
Calais rather than Normandy. To do this General Eisenhower took
his best general, Patton, and placed him in charge of FUSAG
(First United States Army Group). FUSAG was not however an
actual army, it was fictitious. Eisenhower knew how much
respect the Germans had for Patton and used that against them,
he also knew that if the Germans were able to support Normandy
in a timely fashion we would not be able to get the foot hold
needed to make the invasion successful. The deception was so
successful that at a meeting held on June 9th Hitler still
thought the main invasion would come at Pas de Calais and
ordered troops there to remain and any reinforcements for
Normandy to be diverted to Pas de Calais.
It goes without saying that this operation saved many lives and
without it the outcome of the invasion would have been
drastically different. History has many examples of how
deception has helped win battles and wars, but for Eisenhower I
can only imagine how hard this must have been when thinking
about the number of lives it could cost and what was at stake.
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: MissTaken ID
Date: June 5, 2015, 7:15 pm
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Make sure you are submitting these on the WOT forum as well, or
they wont count! I found it by looking under Contests
:thankyou: :beer:
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Re: Operation Neptune-GOLD GIVEAWAY!
DIR By: SPF9200
Date: June 5, 2015, 7:25 pm
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Tie in the WoT theme with a pic of one of those tanks with the
skirt around it that was designed to help them float to shore.
:thumb:
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