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Weren't the plans for Operation Market Garden discovered by the Germans in a crashed plane and ignored? Something like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ope
by carapace 6y ago
Weren't the plans for Operation Market Garden discovered by the Germans in a crashed plane and ignored? Something like that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden
- int_19h 6y agoThe biggest one of those was Stalin's refusal to believe that Germans would attack the USSR, even when it was so imminent that all alarms were going off (and duly reported to him as such).
- redis_mlc 6y agoEven without plans, the Allies crashed a bunch of gliders and the Germans unexpectedly had tanks positioned in the area. (Glider tow pilots generally did not use the correct air speeds when avoiding flak and enemy fighters, resulting in horrific losses. Often soldiers would jump, and the high airspeeds would instantly rip off their parachutes and equipment.) The Germans in WW2 were not an army you wanted to fight with on equal terms.