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Re: Luftwaffe aerial recon prior to D-Day
Well, since this thread is about german aerial recon prior to D-day, I suppose the question here is what the germans knew about which allied unit who was based where in england in spring 1944. And how they collected that info. Not how the allied tricked the germans about the landing site. Everybody knows that. And since your books tell little about it, it seems that this topic is not so thorough research as you tell. Probably because historians normally don't goes in detail about such stuff.
And Ultra is not a german document
Best again from Norway
Olve
Then what do you think it is? It's the untranslated and translated verbatim transcript of an encrypted German message intercepted and decrypted by British signals intelligence.
As for German knowledge of Allied units in the U.K. in spring 1944, there are loads of documents in the Ic Fremde Heere West/OKH collection (NARA T-78) and Ic Fremde Luftwaffe West/Ob.d.L. collection (NARA T-321). They are quite detailed - but not very accurate - down to infantry/armored division and air group level, but what's the point? There is a big difference between having knowledge of an enemy's order of battle and acting on it. This thread is about D-Day and what the Germans knew about troop buildups and shipping concentrations and what that might say about where the invasion might be expected. All the OB intelligence gave them was partially accurate information on units, over all size, and some details on locations. But they still did not know where or exactly when.
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