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Originally Posted by jimbuna
My father told me that the real concern at the time was not knowing for sure if the Germans had wind of the pending Normandy landings via captured Documents on drowned troops or even someone having been captured.
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Allied command knew exactly who was carrying 'sensitive' documents on these exercises. In the case of this 'Exercise Tiger' every named carrier of such documents was retrieved.
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Originally Posted by jimbuna
Remember, the Allies used the washed up body trick(launched from a sub actually) to fool the Germans into what area the landings would occur in.
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Was that trick not used only for the Sicily landings?
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Correct for the second point, the first by Jim was also correct.