Fortitude by Roger Hesketh

Author:Roger Hesketh [HESKETH, ROGER]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HIS027100/HIS010020/HIS010000
ISBN: 9781590209486
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Published: 2011-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

No Allied deceiver could have taken exception to that appreciation, but we were drawing perilously near to the danger line. Reinforcement of the bridgehead from the South-Eastern counties was already suggesting that Patton’s Army Group had not been given the decisive role. During the next ten days the greater part of FUSAG, as the enemy then knew it, would be on its way to France. Furthermore, the uncontrolled agents, the loose horses in the race, constituted an added risk. Thus OSTRO reported from Lisbon on 6th July: ‘All indications point to the fact that trans-shipment to Normandy of divisions already assembled will proceed, other landings having been abandoned. Large-scale movements to South-East England have taken place, as transports by day however, so that they were obviously intended as deception manœuvres, especially as some of these troops have already been transported back to embarkation points area Bognor Regis–Weymouth.’25 On 19th July the same agent declared that ‘General Patton’s Headquarters was transferred to Dorchester, King’s Arms Hotel, on 11th July. Simultaneously, United States troops have moved from South-Eastern to Southern England. Patton’s Army has, since the beginning of July, been regularly supplying troops to the First US Army in Normandy.’26

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