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Excellent look at the intelligence the Germans had just before D Day COL Mikel J. Burroughs Lt Col Charlie Brown CW5 Jack Cardwell SGT (Join to see) SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth SGT John " Mac " McConnell Col Carl Whicker SPC Douglas Bolton TSgt Joe C. CPL Dave Hoover SSgt (Join to see) PO1 H Gene Lawrence LTC Stephen F.
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Hindsight at the strategic and operational level of war can be somewhat accurate. It presupposes that the principal actors recorded their understanding of the situation in meaningful detail.
1. The German military hierarchy was convoluted at best with OKW and OKH as competing higher headquarters.
2. Hermann Goring was a confident of Hitler and he would have oversight of aerial intelligence over the ghost army with George Patton as it's leader dispersed opposite Calais.
3. Many officers were terrified of Hitler who demonstrated rages as the war progressed. Information was closely guarded and sometimes bad news was deliberately withheld.
In 1944 significant changes in leadership occurred coincident with plots against Hitler
a. The architect of the Atlantic Wall Erwin Rommel was forced to commit suicide since he was one of the high level plotters against Hitler.
b. Admiral Wilhelm Franz Canaris was chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944.
What do you think? COL Charles Williams COL (Join to see) COL Mikel J. Burroughs SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL MSG Brad Sand SSG Donald H "Don" Bates Sgt (Join to see)
1. The German military hierarchy was convoluted at best with OKW and OKH as competing higher headquarters.
2. Hermann Goring was a confident of Hitler and he would have oversight of aerial intelligence over the ghost army with George Patton as it's leader dispersed opposite Calais.
3. Many officers were terrified of Hitler who demonstrated rages as the war progressed. Information was closely guarded and sometimes bad news was deliberately withheld.
In 1944 significant changes in leadership occurred coincident with plots against Hitler
a. The architect of the Atlantic Wall Erwin Rommel was forced to commit suicide since he was one of the high level plotters against Hitler.
b. Admiral Wilhelm Franz Canaris was chief of the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944.
What do you think? COL Charles Williams COL (Join to see) COL Mikel J. Burroughs SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL MSG Brad Sand SSG Donald H "Don" Bates Sgt (Join to see)
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2177235.Code_Name_Nimrod
I'd read various accounts that this story, or some variant of it, might actually be true to some extent, though I've never known for certain...if you've all never read it, I assure all.of.you, it's be well.worth the time,.promise...it's a.most unusual.stiry, I've always wanted to see it done as a film, esp.if true at all....
I'd read various accounts that this story, or some variant of it, might actually be true to some extent, though I've never known for certain...if you've all never read it, I assure all.of.you, it's be well.worth the time,.promise...it's a.most unusual.stiry, I've always wanted to see it done as a film, esp.if true at all....
'Code Name Nimrod' is the story of one man’s involvement in one of World War II’s greatest deceptions. He was a member of a secret organi...
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They didn't know enough, or maybe more accurately, couldn't turn what intel they had into operations. The Airborne units operating in the German rear probably saved one or more of the beachheads from being hit with a determined and possibly successful counterattack. There were several powerful German units in the area capable of destroying the light forces that landed in the early going.
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