I wonder how well D-Day would have worked if we told the Nazis that we were going to invade?

[imanamerican63]

I saw Pee Brain Hegseth’s pc where he stated “today is going day of the biggest attack on Iran”!



Where are the Generals? I can’t see them being able to defend this idiot and his unqualified incompetence and inept leadership?

Iran will ready for the attack now!

This has to be the dumbest DOD leader ever in the history of military minds. Eisenhower, Patton,
MacArthur and others would be embarrassed by this idiot!

[Norbert]

1. I can just hear Kegsbreath.

"If you don't mind my asking, when is high tide?"

[Irish_Dem]

2. Keeping D-Day secret from Hitler was one of the greatest feats of WWII.

Some wonderful psy-ops in action.

If Hitler and his generals had known exactly where Eisenhower was
going to land his invasion, it would have given Hitler time to mobilize
his troops from all over Europe to Normandy Beach.

The outcome would have been very bad for Allied Troops.

[ColoringFool]

3. To Digress Further: I Just Received My DVD Of "The Man Who Never Was,"....

The true story of perhaps the greatest Allied deception!

[Irish_Dem]

4. Yes indeed. I love this story.

It was only one of the deceptions, but a very good one.

[GCG]

6. Operation Mincemeat

Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. Two members of British intelligence obtained the body of Glyndwr Michael, a tramp who died from eating rat poison, dressed him as an officer of the Royal Marines and placed personal items on him identifying him as the fictitious Captain (Acting Major) William Martin. Correspondence between two British generals that suggested that the Allies planned to invade Greece and Sardinia, with Sicily as merely the target of a feint, was also placed on the body.

[ColoringFool]

9. And There's A Movie With This Name, Too! But I Prefer The ...

More suspenseful ending of the other!

[GCG]

5. Well

The Allied Command did let the Germans know we were going to invade...just not where they believed we were going to invade.

Under the overall umbrella of Operation Bodyguard, the Allies conducted several subsidiary operations designed to mislead the Germans as to the date and location of the Allied landings. Operation Fortitude included Fortitude North, a misinformation campaign using fake radio traffic to lead the Germans into expecting an attack on Norway, and Fortitude South, a major deception involving the creation of a fictitious First United States Army Group under Lieutenant General George S. Patton, supposedly located in Kent and Sussex. Fortitude South was intended to deceive the Germans into believing that the main attack would take place at Calais. Genuine radio messages from 21st Army Group were first routed to Kent via landline and then broadcast, to give the Germans the impression that most of the Allied troops were stationed there. Patton was stationed in England until 6 July, thus continuing to deceive the Germans into believing a second attack would take place at Calais.

[imanamerican63]

7. True, but Hegseth let other security secrets out before!

[GreatGazoo]

8. Thanks. Saved me the research

I remembered that there was a disinformation campaign and that the Germans knew something was coming, although not exactly where. They were as prepared as they could be for it.