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More vigorously and with greater force and depth than had been anticipated. What do you think patton would have done in that circumstance . Landing an army on the beach with no opposition . Would he do you think he might have dug in . You know, thats a counter factual and historians always love counter factuals because i cant be wrong. I can say, yeah, he would have dug in just like lucas did. Or no, he would have raced to rome and the story of the anzio landings would have been considerably different. My belief is had general lucas taken that small core and pushed inland they would have been ...

Out is that the germans at salerno used experimental glider bombers, Remote Control glider bombers and that almost caused the operation to be a failure for the United States. Yeah. And so did the german do you know if the germans used those same tactics in any other phase of the war . The germans were fiendish in coming up with new gadgets and one that they used against us for the first time was a glide bomb called the fritz x. And it was a bomb that was dropped from an airplane and then it was guided by the pilot with a little joy stick. And he could guide the bomb very similar to the way bom...

Tenets is to hold the high ground. And the terrain of italy, wasnt there significant reconnaissance or intelligence to find out about, say, not even just the fortifications around them but simply the geography as well as the geology of the area going up the boot . Yeah, we knew a lot. For one thing, when the italians switched sides we had a lot of italian informants. Body the Italian Military, Italian Military provided lots of maps. Needless to say they had lots of experience in areas around casino and the other german fortifications. We had aerial reconnaissance that was pretty good. We had e...

Speakers lecture series. Its an hour and 40 minutes. Thanks so much for inviting me to be with you and for joining me on this gorgeous new york morning. This is the third presentation ive given in this fantastic auditorium at the New York Historical society in just over a year. And all i can say is you folks are gluttons for punishment. Were going to talk about the second world war. I was just in normandy for the 70th anniversary of dday. And that campaign certainly has taken center stage this spring just as it has in our National Narrative about the liberation of europe since june 6th, 1944, ...

Good at figuring out stuff like this. But in the main, i think you have to say that, although there were times when senior guys ultra did not go below army level. So if you were a corps commander, you didnt get ultra. You werent even supposed to know about it. So at army level, which is a very high tactical level, you got ultra and you had an ultra officer there, he would bring the stuff in, hed say, this is what we got from blechly park today, where they were decrypting this stuff in england. Hed say, this is what we got today, this is what we know. Sir, you probably cant do anything about th...