5At that precise moment, however, the C.-in-C. West "is not yet convinced that invasion on alarge scale has begun". Headquarters Naval Group West, which had itself beenunwilling, as recently as 1:30 a.m., 4to believe in the imminence of a large-scale landing,complained at 4:45 a.m. West refrained from reporting thetime at which he ordered Alert II. 2Įvidence as to the reception of the reports by the headquarters of Rommel's ArmyGroup "B" and of the Commander-in-Chief West is somewhat contradictory, but itwould seem that there was some initial reluctance to accept theĪllied enterprise as a major undertaking. Marcove ,Montebourg, on both sides of the river Vire and on the east coast of the Cotentin". a report from the 84th Corps of "parachute descentssince 0105 hrs in the areas east and northwest of Caen, St. 1The Seventh Army,whose area was being more directly assailed, had issued the same order five minutesbefore, after receiving at 1:30 a.m. At 1:45 a.m., after the commander of the 81st Corps hadconfirmed the descents in a telephone conversation with the Army Commander, "Alert II"(the highest degree of alert) was ordered for all Fifteenth Army corps and headquarters naval and air commands and Military Governors were informed. This reflected the descent of the 6th Airborne Division, which as we have seenbegan as early as 12:20. a report of parachute landings in thearea of the 711th Infantry Division was received from the Chief of Staff of the 81stCorps. theGerman Fifteenth Army warned its subordinate formations that one of the messagespointed to "invasion within 48 hours". Shortlyafterwards all commands concerned were informed by telephone. ofcode messages known to be warnings of imminent invasion to Resistance forces. German radio interception reported to C.-in-C. Not untilthe landing of parachute troops in large numbers was reported did their higherheadquarters order unusual precautions and even then their reaction was belated. on 5 Junedoes not seem to have been interpreted by the Germans as heralding an assault.
attack on the ten coastal batteries which began at 11:31 p.m. That this was true on the "strategic" level has already beendemonstrated.* It was also true on the "tactical" level that is to say, the troops actuallyholding the coast defences had no warning until we opened fire. T HE great Allied blow delivered in Normandy on the morning of 6 June 1944 took theGermans by surprise.
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