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You do realise that Germany invaded France dont you? When the Allies planned raids they didnt consider which French political department places were in or even if they were in France. When I worked in Dunkerque I stayed in Belgium, De Panne, it is four miles away, please give up, you are sounding like a Yokel.Brugge is in Flanders : the Pas de Calais is in France .And Amiens is not located in the Pas de Calais . Amiens is the capital of the department of the Somme and was in WW2 the HQ of the second panzer division . And the distance between Amiens and Dunkirk is more than 150 km ,to Brugge even more which means that Germany had only ONE PzD to protect the coast between Normandy and the Netherlands ,which proves my point that with better intelligence Germany would still have only one division .
The problem was not intelligence but shortage of divisions .
My Uncle was a submariner in the Pacific Theater.My wifes father was a submariner, my father was on convoy escort. His ship HMS Highlander hit ice off Newfoundland, as the Titanic did. If you can run into an iceberg because you didnt see it how easy is it to miss a ship or convoy in the dark that is only a mile away?
His wartime service killed him, the acid fumes burned his lungs and he died of chronic lung problems in 1962. He spent much of the time submerged in the Med as far as we know, a Submariners records dont say much about what they did,My Uncle was a submariner in the Pacific Theater.
I have no idea how he got by, they were primitive machines, you know.
If the U Boats could not do anything against the convoys, there was no need to search for them .
I'm really hoping that there is a U-boat crewman who is a member of our forum to comment. Not that he would know.
You continue to prove my point.
My Uncle survived the war and went on to serve in the USN until he retired.His wartime service killed him, the acid fumes burned his lungs and he died of chronic lung problems in 1962. He spent much of the time submerged in the Med as far as we know, a Submariners records dont say much about what they did,
Its hard to imagine the life. He was married during the war and they had two children during it. She never got notice of him coming home so he either came through the front door or she would get a telegram saying he was missing presumed dead.My Uncle survived the war and went on to serve in the USN until he retired.
He did suffered residual effects from the "bends".
One of his boats was sunk in battle and being a torpedoman, he was able to escape via the tube before the boat sank too deep to survive the ascent.
Are you familiar with the expression "pearls before swine"? You would have better luck talking to the wall.
FWIW I'm convinced.
Germany was not aware of time and place of Overlord, but this was not important,because Germany had not the forces to defeat the landing even if they knew it .
You still are unable to understand that with better code breaking,Germany would still lose : what it needed was not more knowledge of allied plans, but more divisions .
Dude, same reaction here. Almost face palmed instead.It's funny you mention that phrase, Rob. It was literally in my mind when I was composing a reply to his "D-Day/enemy-doesn't-know-what-he-himself-is-doing" claptrap this morning. So I backspaced over my reply and simply put up my facepalm instead.
Those primitive machines were a waste and so were oil tankers.When the first submarine was launched no one could find it so they stopped wasting time looking, but it didnt go very far and had no weapons on board so no one built any more. That's why what you read in all our so called history books is wrong.
Its always great to be given a geography lesson about where I used to live. 6 months in Dunkerque, 6 months in Aulnoye / Maubeuge and 9 months in Rouen plus years in Northern Europe crossing the channel by ferry to from Dieppe Calais Brugge Rotterdam.Those primitive machines were a waste and so were oil tankers.
They should have used all that time and effort to improve the road between Dunkirk and Amiens - I hear it was rough going.
You still are unable to understand that with better code breaking,Germany would still lose : what it needed was not more knowledge of allied plans, but more divisions .
Germany had not enough soldiers to protect the coasts of Western Europe .
Still haven't looked up the suggestions given to you for some research have you.There is a difference between both : the LW was still able in 1940 to attack London while Doenitz did not know where were the non rerouted convoys and while his U Boats had not sufficient fuel and ammunition .
But : why should the RAF go after the LW bombers in 1945,when these were unable to hurt London .
Still haven't looked up the suggestions given to you for some research have you.
PS Still waiting for you to respond to the questions posed to you