Werner pluskat biography

GERMAN MAJ. Werner Pluskat, peering through binoculars in disbelief at the fog-shrouded English Channel, grabbed quickly for a phone to call his superiors.

Pluskat was shocked to see an armada appearing through the 5 a.m. mist outside his Normandy beach bunker.

“There must be 10,000 ships out here!” he announced in a frantic call to the German divisional command, as recounted in Cornelius Ryan’s classic “The Longest Day.”

Asked where the invaders were headed, the overmatched German’s terse reply was accurate: “Right for me.”

The Allied invasion of June 6, 1944, was more than a year in the making, its details held tight for months as the biggest secret of the 20th century.

The world learned several hours after Pluskat about the stealth launch of Operation Overlord — better known seven decades later as D-Day.

“You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months,” said Gen.

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