anyone else smell something fishy with this one? Surely if the documents were authentic, D-Day +1 as referred to, would have been the 6th June and not the 7th as stated in the article?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11401966/Top-secret-D-Day-plans-found-hidden-under-hotels-floorboards.html
By: Moggy C - 10th February 2015 at 18:17
the July error (earlier in the article) casts some doubt over almost every other word……
The error almost certainly came from The Telegraph.
Moggy
By: TonyT - 10th February 2015 at 17:44
“One document refers to D-Day1 – June 7 1944 – and mentions difficulties in setting up a ten-mile telephone cable as troops continued advancing into northern France.”
Why does that surprise you, it took them 7 days to simply fix the 40 ft to my house.
By: stuart gowans - 10th February 2015 at 17:29
“One document refers to D-Day1 – June 7 1944 – and mentions difficulties in setting up a ten-mile telephone cable as troops continued advancing into northern France.”
Whatever “D-Day1” means, I would have thought that a week in, (June 7) might have beeen reasonable enough time to advance 10 miles; of course the July error (earlier in the article) casts some doubt over almost every other word……
By: Moggy C - 10th February 2015 at 15:08
Well spotted.
Accurate journalism as always.
Moggy
By: garryrussell - 10th February 2015 at 14:17
The article says D-D-1 7th July
By: Moggy C - 10th February 2015 at 14:16
Yes, I’ve never seen anything headed “on His Majesty’s Secret Service”
On the image they have used it is labelled (in print) “On His Majesty’s Service”. Somewhere below it is written the word ‘Secret’ in red pen.
Too much of a temptation for the James Bond loving, 12-year old journo.
Moggy
Wot Garry just said ^^^^^^
By: garryrussell - 10th February 2015 at 14:14
It’s not marked On His Majesty’s secret Service
The Secret is handwritten as a separate entity
By: Gipsy 1 - 10th February 2015 at 14:07
It reads to me that the June 7th reference etc is not ‘plans’ but reports back after the event. Describes the difficulties they’ve had, not projected ones.
By: J Boyle - 10th February 2015 at 13:58
Were they found at the Stork Hotel?
By: RetreatingBlade - 10th February 2015 at 13:17
It must be true! It was on BBC South Today! Just after the piece about the buried Stirlings at Stoney Cross.
By: Bunsen Honeydew - 10th February 2015 at 13:15
anyone else smell something fishy with this one? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/11401966/Top-secret-D-Day-plans-found-hidden-under-hotels-floorboards.html
Yes, I’ve never seen anything headed “on His Majesty’s Secret Service”
Might be wrong but it smells to me
By: Moggy C - 10th February 2015 at 12:51
It’s not made clear if the ‘7th June’ is actually written in the documents. If it is, they are clearly retrospective.
But if the hotel / newspaper merely added the date as an explanation of what ‘D-Day +1’ means that would explain it.
Moggy
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