Reddit reviews Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris; June 6 - Aug. 5, 1944; Revised

I went hunting for this photo because John Keegan in Six Armies in Normandy, while talking about the secrecy surrounding Enigma, states that there is a photo of Guderian and his typist. Keegan states that the "uninstructed" took the person to be his typist working on his typewriter.

For everyone commenting about the state of California now, /u/baseacegoku is referring to the fact that we had almost no military defenses on the West Coast at the time of Pearl Harbor. Those that were there were ill-equipped, undertrained, and very short on supplies. Esteemed Historian John Keegan, writing in his book Six Armies in Normandy, notes this by basically saying the Japanese could have invaded, waited a very brief time to let the military bases use up their small amount of ammo, and then push forward almost without resistance from the military. Private gun ownership was not what /u/baseacegoku was referring to if I understand it correctly.

I highly recommend this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Six-Armies-Normandy-Liberation-Revised/dp/0140235426

Pretty sure I saw it in this book, will check