Thread: Instead of Normandy, what about Pas-De-Calais
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Old September 24th, 2007, 08:28 PM
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Default Re: Instead of Normandy, what about Pas-De-Calais
Pas-De-Calais defenses were about 90% complete and that would have been a blunder playing in to Hitler's hands, the Allies suffered one Dieppe and they were not about to let Overlord go the same way. Normandy was the correct decision which bought us the time we needed while the German Generals went back wards and for wards with Hitler over the landings and releasing the Tank force.
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