Targets of Opportunity - Europe early 1943

 

As agreed at the Trident Conference in Washington in 1943, the Western Allies laid plans for an invasion of Europe in 1944. Ignoring the fact that they already held a foothold in Europe, Italy, the American and British planners yielded to political pressures and selected France as the target of a cross-channel assault. ...the Germans were expecting the blow to fall across the Pas de Calais, and the Normandy beaches were correspondingly less heavily defended. The whole operation was covered by the most elaborate [scheme] of deception of the whole war. Every effort was made to persuade the Germans that the Pas de Calais was the real target. For every sortie flown west of Le Havre, two were flown north of it.

This FSO will simulate many of the sorties flown in early 1943 by the Allied and Axis forces over the channel, with each side often looking for targets of opportunity.

The Cassell – Atlas of the Second World War

CiC's may not assign a squad or squads to defend task groups as they may not be attacked, or to quote ImADot 
"CiC's cannot assign a squad or squads to defend task groups as they are not primary targets and might not be attacked."  

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