Yet in June [1944] major Soviet offensive activity in Belorussia followed the Allied Normandy landings by seventeen days. The second major Soviet offensive against German forces in Poland, which began on 12 July, preceded the Allied breakout from Normandy (Operation COBRA of 25 July) by thirteen days. The landing of Allied forces in southern France on 15 August and the threatened (but failed) encirclement of German forces at Falaise preceded the Soviet offensive into Rumania by five days.” As intelligence officers often say, there is no such thing as a series of coincidences.
