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re: Movies that would not hold up with today's technology
Posted on 9/21/10 at 12:23 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
Posted on 9/21/10 at 12:23 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
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The Germans would've seen the entire Overlord battle plan on CNN.
Yeah, I'm reading The Steel Wave now and have thought a few dozen times "I can't believe the Germans didn't know about D-day in advance". Pretty amazing even in 1944.
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Posted on 9/21/10 at 1:21 pm to Tigris
quote:Off topic a bit, but still interesting. Certain words relating to the Normandy invasion - "Overload", "Neptune", "Omaha", "Utah", "Mulberry" - started to show up in the crossword puzzle in the Daily Telegraph newspaper. MI5 went crazy, thought that somehow the plan was being leaked to the Germans via the crossword.
Yeah, I'm reading The Steel Wave now and have thought a few dozen times "I can't believe the Germans didn't know about D-day in advance". Pretty amazing even in 1944.
It turns out that the man who compiled the crossword, Leonard Dawe, was the headmaster at Strand School. He would often ask current or former students for words to include in the puzzle, and apparently the students heard the various Allied troops tossing about the different words and they picked them up and brought them back for inclusion in the puzzles.
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