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| contraptions without getting
arrested immediately. He offered to take a bike and give an eyewitness
account of the fortifications, without attempting to photograph them.
This did seem more sensible.
Our scout discovered, by
following the beaches, that there were no German fortifications on the
Mediterranean coast near Montpellier at all, only some unprotected artillery
positions not too far from the beaches, in mosquito country, as we called
it. Were these taken out with an air strike, Palavas would have been
a perfect landing spot for the PT boats. But the Allies in fact chose
St. Tropez, on the other side of the Rhone delta, and at that time a sleepy
fishing village, as their target on August 15, 1944. |
