D-Day clues
Sir: I have been a subscriber to your publi- cation for the last few years and enjoy it very much. Obviously your readers are a delightful and well-informed group, as evi- denced by their letters to the editor. The following, I hope, will spark a response.
A few months prior to D-Day, a promi- nent London newspaper published its daily crossword puzzle. At least five of the solu- tions were code names in the D-Day opera- tion. For example, the solutions to some were Utah, Omaha, Overlord etc.
Naturally, the security people descended upon the editor of the puzzle and their interrogation resulted in his persuading them that the entire matter was mere coin- cidence. That explanation sufficed until more than 50 years later when two gentle- men revealed that as youngsters, they assisted the editor in drafting the crossword puzzle and furnished him with the code names that appeared in the puzzle which caused the security people a great deal of unease.
These two gentlemen were advised as youngsters by the editor never to reveal that they had furnished the words that they had overheard in and around London from the lips of various servicemen. If they had, there would have been dire consequences for the three of them.
I would like to set the record straight.
John J. Stamos Stamos & Trucco,
Ten North Dearborn, Fifth Floor, Chicago, USA
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