Codeword Overlord by Nigel West

Author:Nigel West [West, Nigel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2019-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

The main thrust of the FORTITUDE campaign would be delivered by the agents equipped with transmitters, but there were others who worked in supporting roles and relied on the regular mail. The first objective, of course, was to provide the enemy with an order of battle, and this had added significance when eight Allied divisions were shipped back to England from Italy. The US 1st and 9th Infantry Divisions, the 2nd Armoured and 82nd Airborne Divisions, the British 50th Infantry, 7th Armoured and 1st Airborne Divisions slipped into the country under radio silence, although by January the disappearance of the 50th British Infantry and the 51st Highland Division had been detected by the OKW and prompted a question sent to BRUTUS and others on 11 January 1944: ‘What are the British divisions which have been withdrawn from Italy and have come back to Britain?’

The response was that only selected personnel had been transferred from Italy for training purposes, and this explanation was accepted by the OKW, which circulated on 21 January:

Independent reports about the transfer of parts of the 8th British Army from the Mediterranean to England continue. The possibility must therefore be considered that individual formations which have not appeared in Italy and North Africa for some considerable time have been transferred wholly or in part to the British Isles.

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