What if the D Day landings took place at Cherbourg or Calais in France, and Normandy was used as the decoy? Would the outcome be much different?
The Germans thought that the landing would be around Calais and the other Channel Ports. So the Allies will run into much, much fiercer German resistance.What if the D Day landings took place at Cherbourg or Calais in France, and Normandy was used as the decoy? Would the outcome be much different?
What if the D Day landings took place at Cherbourg or Calais in France, and Normandy was used as the decoy? Would the outcome be much different?
What if the D Day landings took place at Cherbourg or Calais in France, and Normandy was used as the decoy? Would the outcome be much different?
Are we all talking about the same Cherbourg?Cherbourg would have been a disaster. Too far from air bases in England, much longer trip for shipping, no way to lay oil pipe lines with any degree of speed. Even if the landing was successful, which is iffy, the advance would have been far slower.
Logically if the Pas de Calais is the site of the invasion and Normandy were the diversion then the Fortitude deception operation uses Normandy as its basis; false plans showing the Beaches of Normandy fall into German hands, large fake ammunition dumps are built in Southern England and radio messages from a fictitious Army Group commanded by General Patton are transmitted from Cornwall and other parts of South-West England. No troops would step ashore in Normandy.If Normandy is used as a diversion...
Logically if the Pas de Calais is the site of the invasion and Normandy were the diversion then the Fortitude deception operation uses Normandy as its basis; false plans showing the Beaches of Normandy fall into German hands, large fake ammunition dumps are built in Southern England and radio messages from a fictitious Army Group commanded by General Patton are transmitted from Cornwall and other parts of South-West England. No troops would step ashore in Normandy.
Definitely.Deceptions always work better when your enemy already believes something and you are simply reinforcing that belief. Trying to get them to change their mind completely is much harder and less certain of success.
Definitely.
Plus Geography is working against you; the Germans were naturally reluctant to move troops south to reinforce the front in Normandy and strip the Fifteenth Army away from Pas-de-Calais if there was the possibility of a second invasion because then they’d have the enemy between them and Germany, but if you are losing ground in Calais and have troops sitting in Normandy you’d move them because a second landing further away is less damaging than a breakout in Calais would be. And that’s pretty much what happened with the South of France; the Germans pulled out to strengthen the collapsing line in the North before the Americans and Free French even landed in the South.
Which was anticipated, hence the Mulberries. And if some idiot says they were only 50% efficient because one of them was destroyed by storms I am going to go postal on them.although it was mid-August before it was actually in commission due to demolition by the Germans.
Yes thankyou, we know. They were built so that the invasion would not be dependent on the immediate capture of a port, as previous amphibious invasions had been.Actually, the Mulberries were deployed off Normandy, not in Cherbourg.