How long after the Normandy landings did the Allies want to the Germans to believe the ‘real’ invasion around Calais would occur?
I ask because there seem to be two conflicting intervals provided by Wikipedia on the subject (with the full article actually being, as some of you will be aware, Wiki’s Featured Article today).
One statement from Wiki reads:
Yet, in the very next section of that Wikipedia article (and elsewhere), one reads the following:
So, which was it? Was the feigned Calais invasion (Operation Glimmer) supposed to happen on June 6 or “several weeks after”?
I suppose one way to reconcile this apparent contradiction is that in the period leading up to the Normandy landings, the hope was that the Germans would be expecting instead an invasion at Calais and in late June, whereas once D-Day got going, the idea was to make them think that Pas-de-Calais region was going to be invaded later the same day, or the next.
Thanks!