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75th Anniversary of Operation Overlord and Operation Neptune.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:12 pm
Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:12 pm
On this day, 75 years ago, Operation Chattanooga Choo Choo commenced. This operation was a systematic bombing of German-held railroad facilities and structures with the strategic objective of degrading the German capability to move military assets by railroad.
Also, on this day, 75 years ago, a newspaper in Britain published a cross-word puzzle that contained the word "Omaha" in one of its solutions. This briefly caused concern in Allied high command circles because "Omaha" was a code-word for one of the US forces' landing beaches.
This is your official 75th Anniversary of Operation Overlord OT thread.
Commence posting thoughts regarding D-Day, 6 June 1944, in this thread.
That is all.
Also, on this day, 75 years ago, a newspaper in Britain published a cross-word puzzle that contained the word "Omaha" in one of its solutions. This briefly caused concern in Allied high command circles because "Omaha" was a code-word for one of the US forces' landing beaches.
This is your official 75th Anniversary of Operation Overlord OT thread.
Commence posting thoughts regarding D-Day, 6 June 1944, in this thread.
That is all.
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Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:13 pm to Champagne
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a newspaper in Britain published a cross-word puzzle that contained the word "Omaha" in one of its solutions. This briefly caused concern in Allied high command circles because "Omaha" was a code-word for one of the US forces' landing beaches.
Peyton Manning must have given them fits.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:19 pm to Champagne
Need to take the niece and nephew down to the D-Day museum.
Think the oldest one can start to appreciate just what occurred back then now.
Think the oldest one can start to appreciate just what occurred back then now.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:39 pm to Champagne
Anyone go to the D-Day reenactment at Pontchartrain Beach back in 1994 for the fiftieth anniversary? It was pretty awesome.
My great-uncle flew two missions on D-Day as a B-17 pilot with the 385th Bomb Group. He retired from the Air Force twenty years later, and had some wild stories from both World War II and his days with SAC in Alaska. He passed away only a few years ago.
My great-uncle flew two missions on D-Day as a B-17 pilot with the 385th Bomb Group. He retired from the Air Force twenty years later, and had some wild stories from both World War II and his days with SAC in Alaska. He passed away only a few years ago.
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:39 pm to Champagne
Beaumont Texas WWI Last Man Standing Club with the prize-
#1 looks like he’s 20 years younger than the others.
#1 looks like he’s 20 years younger than the others.
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 12:41 pm
Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:45 pm to Champagne
Not just Omaha
LINK
LINK
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A huge security blanket had been thrown over all aspects of the operation, including the place and exact date of the landings, in order to maximise the element of surprise and minimise casualties. One US major-general was even demoted and sent home for simply speculating at a cocktail party on the date of the invasion.
But while some members of MI5, Britain’s counter-espionage service, were whiling away their spare moments in May 1944 by doing the Telegraph Crossword, they noticed that vital code-names that had been adopted to hide the mightiest sea-borne assault of all time, appeared in the crossword.
They noticed that the answer to one clue, ‘One of the USA’, turned out to be Utah, and another answer to a clue was Omaha. These were the names given by the Allies to the beaches in Normandy where the American Forces were to land on D-Day.
Another answer that appeared in that month’s crossword was Mulberry. This was the name of the floating harbour that was to be towed across the Channel to accommodate the supply ships of the invasion force. Neptune, another answer, referred to the code-name for the naval support for the operation.
Perhaps the most suspicious was a clue about a ‘Big-Wig’, to which the answer was Overlord. This was the code-name given for the entire operation!
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MI5 eventually became convinced of Dawe’s honesty and he managed to convince them that he had no knowledge of the coming D-Day invasion.
It appears his crossword solutions were perhaps just another of life’s astonishing coincidences!
Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:47 pm to Champagne
Stand up, hook up... 
Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:49 pm to Champagne
Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:51 pm to Jim Rockford
I never new the full story on the crossword. Just the Omaha part.
That's pants-shitting crazy for the intelligence guys.
That's pants-shitting crazy for the intelligence guys.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 12:58 pm to Champagne
Taking 2 of my younger brothers to the WW2 museum in NOLA for the day.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 1:03 pm to Champagne
Army Baws doing Marine Corps things. Semper Fi to all those brave men from June 6th, 1944.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 1:10 pm to Champagne
My 19-year old son and I watched Band of Brothers, episode 1 last night and plan to finish the series by the end of the month. As long as I have the month of HBO paid for (because of GoT) I should use it.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 1:19 pm to Champagne
Heading to Normandy September. Going to hit the Overlord sights as well as the Market-Garden locales in Holland. (Will actually be in Nijmegen on the 75th anniversary of the jump.) Going to see the WW1 battlefield of Verdun as well.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 1:25 pm to CajunSuperJeff
That’s a great father/son show to watch.
I vividly remember watching it with my dad as a kid when it first aired.
I vividly remember watching it with my dad as a kid when it first aired.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 5:21 pm to Jim Rockford
Nice, Jim R!
I didn't know the rest of the details. That is an astonishing chain of coincidences. Mulberry, Omaha, Overlord AND Omaha all appearing in crossword puzzles? It is incredible.
I didn't know the rest of the details. That is an astonishing chain of coincidences. Mulberry, Omaha, Overlord AND Omaha all appearing in crossword puzzles? It is incredible.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 5:23 pm to Wolfhound45
Am I seeing things or does the second man in the stick have the static line wrapped around his wrist?
I'm freaking out over here.
I'm freaking out over here.
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 5:27 pm
Posted on 5/22/19 at 5:25 pm to fr33manator
Thanks for posting.
Not many people know that the invasion sector was defended exclusively by Norwegians.
Ha! I'm just making a bad joke about the German flags that they use in the diagram -- looks like Norway's flag.
I'm easily amused.
Not many people know that the invasion sector was defended exclusively by Norwegians.
Ha! I'm just making a bad joke about the German flags that they use in the diagram -- looks like Norway's flag.
I'm easily amused.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 5:37 pm to Champagne
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Also, on this day, 75 years ago, a newspaper in Britain published a cross-word puzzle that contained the word "Omaha" in one of its solutions
Thry did more than just that. Over a period of months the Daily Telegraph published the names of the other beaches including Utah, Gold, and Sword. They published in their crossword other words associated with the invasion of France like Neptune, Overlord, and Mulberry.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 8:16 pm to Darth_Vader
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Thry did more than just that. Over a period of months the Daily Telegraph published the names of the other beaches including Utah, Gold, and Sword. They published in their crossword other words associated with the invasion of France like Neptune, Overlord, and Mulberry.
How could that be coincidental? The odds of that happening by pure coincidence are impossibly high.
Posted on 5/22/19 at 10:25 pm to Champagne
23 May 1944.
As Allied forces in England begin to assemble in their embarkation areas in utmost secrecy, the news comes over British Broadcasting Services Radio that the Allied forces in the Anzio Beachhead in Italy have finally broken out and are on the move towards Rome. The stalemate in Italy appears to be broken.
In other news, French railroad workers in occupied France begin to desert or otherwise refuse to perform their duties as a result of the extreme threat of Allied bombers arising out of Operation Chattanooga Choo Choo. The German Reichsbahn is forced to shift ethnic German railroad workers to fill the gaps in the more dangerous areas.
As Allied forces in England begin to assemble in their embarkation areas in utmost secrecy, the news comes over British Broadcasting Services Radio that the Allied forces in the Anzio Beachhead in Italy have finally broken out and are on the move towards Rome. The stalemate in Italy appears to be broken.
In other news, French railroad workers in occupied France begin to desert or otherwise refuse to perform their duties as a result of the extreme threat of Allied bombers arising out of Operation Chattanooga Choo Choo. The German Reichsbahn is forced to shift ethnic German railroad workers to fill the gaps in the more dangerous areas.
This post was edited on 5/22/19 at 10:31 pm
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