Originally Posted by
Chugalug2
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I don't doubt that Stagg had teams of professional meteorologists advising him, but it was he who had to brief SHAEF, who made the decision to go as a result. The weather outside was so bad that Rommel had taken the opportunity to go home to Germany with a present for his wife of a pair of new Parisian shoes. What cost those shoes?
Wonder was there a single intelligence officer who actually knew it was her birthday ?
Often it is the tiny little detail that everybody overlooks how someone behaves, is what changes a scenario completely.