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cinmee Operation Anvil, renamed at Churchill’s insistence Operation Dragoon, started on August 15th as planned. Unlike in Normandy where remnants of the Mulberry Harbour and the Atlantic Wall can still be seen, there is little to remind people on the south coast of France that Operation Dragoon eve...

The main outcome of the Doolittle raid was to prod the Japanese into attempting to extend their defensive perimeter further eastward. Thus they went for Midway, which allowed the Americans to set an ambush because they had broken the purple code. So it could be said it was the breaking of the code ...

. I cannot speak for other navies, but the RN appreciated it had weak AA defences in the late-30s and started programmes such as the AA cruiser conversions, AA upgrades on battleships and cruisers and even the Didos. What the problem was was the vast re-armament programme had many other priorities....

I'm not convinced of your hypothesis. The D-Day landings were not Dieppe - this nearly two years later, over a fifty mile front and where not all the German artillery emplacements had serviceable guns. If Rommel could say ''you could land an army of children here'' in May 1944 then even the Germans...