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The ships crossed the Channel at night. This is really important. The day for the invasion depended on a low tide just after dawn, and moonlight for the airborne landings in the hours before dawn. The ships approached with lights off, radios silent, in the dark. They arrived, and could only be sighted, as the sun was coming up. The landing craft hit the beaches at low tide, when the German beach obstacles were most easily seenThe Allies controlled the sea and the air above it that the ships passed through. NO German reconnaissance aircraft patrolled the Channel. No German submarines lurked off the coast of the UK. The Germans sent agents into the UK, and they were routinely captured and turned, or tried and executed.The Germans bought the comprehensive and long-running Allied deceptions that made Calais the real target of the invasion and Normandy only a diversion. The Germans were sure that General Patton’s First United States Army Group , entirely fictional, would be landing in the ‘real’ invasion. The “First United States Army Group”, “FUSAG”, was “detected” from fake radio traffic broadcast from empty fields in the UK, and the full range of fake paperwork, shipping manifests, destination labels, shipments of letters from home and everything else intelligence services live to collect was carefully spoon fed to them. And inflatable rubber tanks and trucks by the hundreds were parked where the “First US Army Group” was stationed, along with tents and everything else an Army would have. But there were no soldiers, or weapons, just decoys. No food or fuel, just empty containers. German intelligence confidently reported the location and status of this fake Army Group even after the invasion. Assisting the deception, there IS a First United States Army, and General Patton was a real commander, with name recognition. Patton returned to his real job as soon as the invasion had happened, he led the 3rd Army’s breakout from Normandy.The Germans detected an “invasion fleet” approaching Calais where they were expecting the invasion. But this fleet was a phantom created by the scores of RAF bombers dropping radar reflecting chaff in a constantly renewed pattern that was the size and shape of an invasion fleet, and moved forward at the speed of an invasion fleet, but disappeared as the sun rose.The Allies sent fighters and bombers to attack many plausible spots on the coast, only a fraction (less than 1/2) actually in the Normandy area. German targets near Calais were hit particularly hard, repeatedly. But enough radar was allowed to survive to detect the fake invasion fleet, while radar near Normandy was effectively eliminated. Air attack, jamming and the French Resistance forces targeted communications systems along the coast. The various paratroop forces dropped in the early hours of D Day were specifically tasked to cut off all communications with the Normandy shore.The Allies took the trouble to capture and remove the German weather ship that had sent reports from the North Atlantic, so German weather reports were less accurate and fine-grained than the Allies. The Allies got data and forecasts from Greenland, Iceland and convoy and naval ships. The break in bad weather that Eisenhower chose for D Day wasn’t forecast by the Germans. Rommel took a break for his wife’s birthday, sure that the weather would stay too bad for an invasion attempt, while he was gone. Rommel’s absence was good luck for the Allies.Hitler was a micromanager and obsessive psychopath who thought he was smarter and more capable than any of his Generals. And he mistrusted them and doubted their judgement. Therefore he reserved, for himself, the release of reserve armored divisions that would be sent to push any invasion back into the sea. Hitler was also a terrible boss, and nobody wanted to risk his wrath by waking him with news of a possible invasion. So what news got out, wasn’t presented to him until he awoke on his own. And he thought it was a diversion.At Bletchley Park, the British were reading all of the German’s highest security cyphers based on the Enigma machine. The Germans never suspected this break, and the British kept it mum for 30 years after. The German Navy were the most effective users of Enigma, with good systems and competent operations. Luck gave a current Naval codebook and cypher settings to the Soviets, in 1941 or 42, and they shared it with the British. Knowing what they had been missing, the British made it their business to get the new codebook and setting every six months when the German Navy issued new ones. The German Army was less adept with Enigma, and committed beginner mistakes like sending the same message using the old then the new codebook and settings. Their systematic tradecraft was less effective. The Luftwaffe, the most “National Socialist” of the Nazi military branches, had the worst code and cypher discipline and tradecraft. Bletchley Park succeeded with automated frontal attacks against the Army and Luftwaffe Enigma traffic.My first correction was getting the name of the “First United States Army Group”, correct. I’d mis-identified it, using the name of the real 3rd Army that General Patton commanded following the invasion. Thanks to Bill Soo!My second correction is that the landings were at low tide- when the German defensive obstacles were most easily seen, avoided and demolished/neutralized. Thank you Thomas Harper! I’d gotten it backward. Source: Astronomy and D-Day: The Sun, Moon, and Tides at Normandy - Sky & TelescopeRegarding British (and American) efforts to read and use coded and encrypted messages, “The Codebreakers” by David Kahn, ISBN-10 0684831309, ISBN-13 978-0684831305, still in print and revised with Internet topics in 1996, is a good place for anyone to start. For more blow-by-blow coverage of the two Poles who initially broke Enigma, how that solution was put to work in Poland, France and finally Great Britain, relative quality of use by various Nazi military arms, the Soviet capture of a German code book from a disabled but not sunken Nazi ship, British seizure of subsequent code books and much, much, more, see Kahn’s “Seizing The Enigma”. ISBN-10: 0395427398 ISBN-13: 978-0395427392.I haven’t finished reading it yet, but the recent biography of Alan Turing, “The Enigma” goes into much greater detail describing his contribution to retail, daily, semi-automated defeat of what the Germans never imagined was breakable….Additional books about Allied success against Nazi codes are “The Ultra Secret” F.W. Winterbotham, and “Ultra Goes To War” by Ron Lewin.I’ve probably read 100 books that touched on D-Day to some degree or other: Good places to start include: “The Longest Day” by Cornelius Ryan; “Crusade In Europe” by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower; “Seven Armies In Normandy” by John Keegan; “D-Day June 6, 1944” and “Band of Brothers” by Stephen Ambrose; “How the Allies Won” by Richard Overy; “The Double Cross System” by J. C. Masterman; “D-Day: The Battle for Normandy” by Antony Beevor; “Night Drop: The American Airbone Invasion of Normandy” by S. L. A. Marshall, H. Garver Miller, et al; Invasion 1944 : Rommel and the Normandy campaign. by Hans Speidel; Pre-Invasion Bombing Strategy: General Eisenhower's Decision of March 25, 1944 (Ideas & Action) by W. W. Rostow;There is a book about the swimmers who probed the German defenses, secretly, at night, bringing back samples of the beach, accurate tide tables, etc. Books bout the 2nd Tactical Air Force which integrated RAF and USAAF close support, about the Army engineers who assisted in the invasion and breakout; about the radar support for the invasion and mobile night-fighter direction that landed on D-Day and protected the landing from the first day. About Coastal Command and its war against the U-Boat fleet, which is why no U-Boats observed the invasion fleet. Books by Royal Navy and US Navy officers and sailors who figured out how to *do* the invasion; books about secret weapons (floating tanks, motorized flails to detonate land-mine fields); books about the logistics enabled by the Mulberry artificial harbors, etc. Books about what happened at every invasion beach (Sword, Gold, Juno, Omaha, etc.), the Canadian, British and US Armies that invaded on the first day and the build-up that followed. Books that cover the 30 mile pipes to carry gasoline from the UK to France that were unrolled across the channel, to obviate docking tankers at the Mulberry harbors

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The GD branch or General Duty branch is Same as the Executive branch in the Indian Navy.A GD officer is responsible for the upkeep of the ship, safety and much more in harbour as well as in the sea. Some the duties are listed below.In harbour, he becomes the Officer Of The Day, taking care of the ship in every aspect.At sea, he will be doing watches in the bridge so as to reach the destination or complete any patrol safely and efficiently.Only a GD officer can become the Commanding officer of a ship and can reach up to DG rank.