Disaster at D-Day

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EVEN THE BEST LAID PLANS

The Dieppe disaster had shown the importance of knowing exactly what and whom the Allies would be up against. Not much information was gleaned via Enigma from German army units because they generally used landlines, but a good deal was obtained from SS and air force messages as well through decrypts from the teleprinter traffic to Berlin. One of these documents went right up to Churchill. This inter-Allied cooperation was vital. The Americans not only shared their intelligence from the Pacific theatre; they also did not try to set up their own Sigint operation for the war in Europe, working instead with and inside Bletchley Park.

Germany Builds the 'Atlantic Wall'

This level of intelligence sharing was historically unprecedented and stood in stark contrast to German intelligence efforts, which were divided across a large number of often competing agencies. For a while that morning it seemed the assault might have to be called off. Equally worrying, behind the German lines many of the heavily-laden US paratroopers ended up far from their designated drop zones because of thick cloud and fierce flak, often landing straight into swamps. The vital point, however, was that the landings did gain a foothold. The long months of preparation had paid off.

Yet the foothold was tenuous. It would be a struggle to supply the beachhead until major ports had been captured. And although Cherbourg fell a week later, the Germans blew up the port facilities, which could not be used until September. For the rest of June and most of July, therefore, progress through the Norman bocage, with its thick hedges and steep banks, was agonisingly slow. The D-Day landings, or Operation Neptune, had succeeded, but Overlord — the battle for Normandy as a whole — hung in the balance.

In the east another D-Day was being planned. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin had met as a triumvirate for the first time at the end of November in Tehran. The Russians then participated in another carefully planned facet of Overlord, the elaborate deception operation that diverted German attention and reserves away from Normandy to confront fictive invasion threats elsewhere — including Norway, where the Soviets assisted by conducting manoeuvres in the Arctic.

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Even allowing for the smaller official size of a Red Army division 12, men compared with US and British divisions respectively 14, and 18, , this contrast in scale was vast. And aptly, albeit by coincidence, Bagration began on the third anniversary of Barbarossa, during the night of 22 June Achieving almost complete surprise, four Soviet army groups tore apart Army Group Centre.

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Within four days Soviet units were across the Dnieper and Dvina rivers; by 4 July the city of Minsk — capital of Byelorussia — had been liberated. In fact, Army Group Centre was simply wiped off the German order of battle. These events in Byelorussia are seldom mentioned in Britain and America. It was no accident that the most serious coup attempt against Hitler by German army officers was mounted on 20 July The plot failed and the Nazi regime exacted a terrible revenge, yet the whole scheme, however courageous, was utterly quixotic.

But the Big Three — learning from and — had committed the Allies to the total defeat of Germany, followed by a process of occupation and democratisation that would eradicate the roots of militarism. And they had the power to accomplish this. By now the American and British armies were breaking out of the Normandy hedgerows. Meanwhile, at the end of the month, Red Army units reached the bank of the Vistula river, on the outskirts of Warsaw — having covered an astonishing miles in five weeks.

The heroic failure of the rising and Big Three recriminations about whether the Soviets could have done more to help the Poles cast a cloud over the alliance — and highlighted the bitter-sweet consequences of the great Soviet victories of Yet hints of a dark future should not obscure what was achieved in June by an unlikely, even unholy alliance that managed to pull together against the bestiality of Nazism.

At its heart was an amazing amphibious operation, two years in the making, that retrieved the disaster of Remember that the Soviets had repeatedly scoffed at the challenge of crossing the Channel, likening it to no more than crossing a big river such as the Volga. Stalin even insinuated that the Allies were cowards. So his telegram to Churchill about D-Day on 11 June, much of it repeated in Pravda a few days later, was not off-the-cuff flattery.

The message represented the high watermark of the Grand Alliance — a tantalising hint, perhaps, of what might have been: My colleagues and I cannot but admit that the history of warfare knows no other like undertaking from the point of view of its scale, its vast conception and its masterly execution. As is well known, Napoleon in his time failed ignominiously in his plan to force the Channel.

The hysterical Hitler, who boasted for two years that he would effect a forcing of the Channel, was unable to make up his mind even to hint at attempting to carry out his threat. Only our Allies have succeeded in realising with honour the grandiose plan of the forcing of the Channel. History will record this deed as an achievement of the highest order.

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The fateful day was fixed for the beginning of June — the 5th, or failing that the 6th or 7th — these days being ones that met crucial conditions, consisting of a dawn assault in the middle of a rising tide, following a night with a full moon for parachutists. The codename for this great landing operation was also chosen: Operation Overlord. Sites and attractions. Find out more. Discover Normandy Must-Sees.

After the disaster at Dieppe, the Allies prepare for D-Day. Jubilee — the codename given to the Dieppe Raid — was the first major reconnaissance expedition carried out by Allied troops, particularly Canadian, and was destined to test the German defences along the French coast.

In human terms, it was a calamity. Furthermore, the failure of the operation was exploited by the Nazi propaganda machine to demonstrate the invincibility of the Atlantic Wall. After the disaster at Dieppe, the Sites and attractions Places to see Near Dieppe. Within a m See all.

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