Operation Omega may have been planned well in advance. Also, or alternatively, MilGov may never have intended to maintain the force at Norfolk for any length of time. The plan may have been to distribute available troops throughout the Atlantic/Gulf Coast region. We know from Howling Wilderness that 78th Infantry Division in New Jersey and an infantry unit in the Memphis area receive Operation Omega reinforcements. The original plan may have been to distribute troops across First and Fifth US Armies. A thousand riflemen here and there could have made a difference. Concentrated in priority areas, the Omega troops might have changed everything.
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