This sounds absurd to me. Ordinary soldiers are unlikely to have been told the codewords for their area of operations until the last minute. They certainly wou

This sounds absurd to me. Ordinary soldiers are unlikely to have been told the codewords for their area of operations until the last minute. They certainly wouldn't have been told about other code words for other areas of operation that they were not part of! I don't buy it one bit. I also find it unlikely that the bulk of the invasion force was in Surrey in May '44. I think they might have moved to the coast by then.