the dispatches from baron oshima are golden. just an example, a couple examples, one of the biggest concerns that the allies had was, they had put together this huge deception program to help, or to convince the germans that the invasion across the channel was going to come at calais and not where it actually occurred. they learned from oshima through several different messages that he was sending back to japan that the germans had bought into the deception, lock, stock and barrel. in addition, in january of 1944, president -- excuse me. general eisenhower still had a general eisenhower still had a lot of questions about what hitler's atlantic wall consisted of. he needed to know about manpower, logistics, weapons, et cetera. and baron oshima went on a tour of installations early in the year. he sent back a long detailed report, and low and behold much of the information in that report helped to answer the questions that general eisenhower had been seeking to finally find a solution to. so the bottom line is, while purple fails