Lucas de Escola escribió:Pues, sÍ, Kleist, cabe pensar que ULTRA fuese durante ese corto pero inquietante periodo,vitalTambién lo aportado por el RADAR fue importantísimo en aquellos momentos para ellos; sin aquellos nuevos aparatos la batalla de Inglaterra podría haber sido diferente. Y he tenido en cuenta este periodo, pero el conjunto de la guerra englobó mucho más tiempo y a más contendientes.
Sin duda, pero el periodo de 1940-41 fue crítico porque GB combatía sola ante Alemania e Italia, y en el Mediterraneo se jugaba una partida de cartas estratégicas que bien pudo poner a los británicos al borde del colapso. Además, insisto, la contribuación de ULTRA a la victoria aliada en la Batalla del Atlántico fue tan decisiva que muy probablemente acortó en dos años la guerra.
voneumman escribió:Sin Enigma ¿hubiese sido factible el desembarco de Normandía en junio de 1944?
Probablemente, no habría sido posible comenzar OVERLORD en 1944 sin la ayuda de ULTRA. Por ejemplo, en esta página: http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii- ... weapon.htm, se afirma que:
I am sure that without the work of many unknown experts at Bletchley Park…the turning point of the Battle of the Atlantic could not have come as it did in May 1943, but months, perhaps many months, later. In that case the Allied invasion of Normandy could not have been possible in June 1944, and there would have ensued a chain of developments very different from the ones which we have experienced.
También se menciona en esa misma página como ULTRA ayudó a precisar los objetivos de la campaña de bombardeos estratégicos aliados:
Moreover, the U.S. Army Air Forces' theories about the vulnerability of the German economy to precision bombing proved somewhat unrealistic. While bomber attacks did inflict heavy damage on German aircraft factories, the industry was in no sense destroyed. Likewise, attacks on ball-bearing plants failed to have a decisive impact. True, damage to Schweinfurt caused the Germans some difficulties, but the batterings that the Eighth's bombers sustained in the August and October raids were such that, despite intelligence information that the Germans would be back in business quickly, the Eighth could not afford to again repeat the mission.
On May 21, another Ultra decrypt noted: Consumption of mineral oil in every form [must] be substantially reduced…in view of effects of Allied action in Rumania and on German hydrogenation plants; extensive failures in mineral oil production and a considerable reduction in the June allocation of fuel, oil, etc., were to be expected. On May 28 and 29, 1944, the Eighth Air Force returned to launch another attack on the oil industry. These two attacks, combined with raids that the Italy-based Fifteenth Air Force had launched against Ploesti, reduced German fuel production by 50 percent. On June 6, Bletchley Park passed along the following decrypted statement: