Marching Orders: The Untold Story of How the American Breaking of the Japanese Secret Codes Led to the Defeat of Nazi Germany and Japan

by Bruce Lee

That Roosevelt will never achieve the political goals he seeks regarding America’s postwar zone of occupation in Germany is not foreseen by naive American military planners. True to their code, they are fighting to end aggression by the Axis powers. They do not view war as do the British, who believe war is a political action aimed at achieving a politically satisfactory peace. The American introduction to this philosophy begins at the Casablanca conference and the creation of SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces), and the naming of SHAEF’s first chief of staff, Britain’s Lt. Gen. Sir Frederick Morgan. Morgan’s primary assignment, as stated earlier, is to establish diversionary actions that will pin down German forces in Western Europe by threatening a cross-Channel invasion in 1943. His second assignment is to start planning for the actual invasion of Europe, Operation OVERLORD. Even more important, however, is his third job: plan for an Allied occupation of Europe in the event that Germany suddenly collapses.