Normandy landings secret

[Guest]

what would have been wrong with turning right straight into Austria? shorter distance to Berlin the from normandy? lol

[Guest]

Steve If the Allies had swept the Germans out of Italy completely before 1944 then why could the allies not have pushed on to Germany from Italy?

Do not forget Paul that Italy has only two roads one west one east with mountains right the way down the spine. It is an easy country to defend in. France is different until you get to the east the country is tank country. As shown once the Allies broke through the bocage, the most difficult part of France other than the the mountainous east, they spread out and pelted across tank terrain.

Laurie

[stona]

Indeed. The Austrian Alps. Further East and you are into the Balkans and in 1944 falling over the Yugoslav partisans and the Russians. It was the Red Army that would liberate Vienna. Communications in this part of the world were somewhere between poor and non existant. They are not much better now. The Germans had already mounted a stubborn defence up the two coasts of Italy and had already proven themselves almost immoveable in a mountain redoubt. The prospect of taking them on in the Alps would not have appealed, hence the landings in Southern France. Those landings, now almost forgotten, forced the Germans all the way back up the Rhone valley to a defensive line in the Vosges mountains and they are nothing like the Alps

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

very interesting points you have dug up Laurie,and it dose make you think way they did not act on what was being said on radio over in Anglia,

if im right i think there was a movie about the same thing, I cannot remember what it was called , but it was about giving false info to the Germans about D-Day

i maybe wrong

Hi Monica, Ken Follett's book 'The Eye of the Needle' which was made into a film of the same title starring Donald Sutherland touched on this subject re Anglia. Cheers Derek

[monica]

thank you Derek,I know it had some think to do with it,but just could not remember the name of the movie