Story 2483
Dover Castle, April 13, 1944
The colonel smiled. The 33rd US Army Group was achieving its mission. Intelligence reports from a multitude of sources ranging from intercepts, to fighters making photo recon passes, and the French resistance sending back tidbits all agreed on two things. The invasion area was not the primary point of German concern at this time and secondary reserves were being moved within the Northern France theatre to locations out of immediate concern and a division was moving to the South of France as well. The Germans had moved half a dozen divisions out of their central reserve and placed three additional divisions that were rebuilding from their experience in Russia into France since the New Year. But most of them would never be immediately relevant.
He sipped his coffee and then stepped out of his door into the organized chaos of several commands that shared the castle together. His men (and more than a few women) would be busy today as they had to move a pair of corps from Scotland to the Thames Estuary over the next week and the radio traffic needed to be convincing.
The colonel smiled. The 33rd US Army Group was achieving its mission. Intelligence reports from a multitude of sources ranging from intercepts, to fighters making photo recon passes, and the French resistance sending back tidbits all agreed on two things. The invasion area was not the primary point of German concern at this time and secondary reserves were being moved within the Northern France theatre to locations out of immediate concern and a division was moving to the South of France as well. The Germans had moved half a dozen divisions out of their central reserve and placed three additional divisions that were rebuilding from their experience in Russia into France since the New Year. But most of them would never be immediately relevant.
He sipped his coffee and then stepped out of his door into the organized chaos of several commands that shared the castle together. His men (and more than a few women) would be busy today as they had to move a pair of corps from Scotland to the Thames Estuary over the next week and the radio traffic needed to be convincing.