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There are many falsehoods surrounding the Gallipoli Campaign. The first concerns the role of intelligence and the depth of planning. A series of Naval Intelligence reports were published through 1906 and were updated by various individuals through to November 1914 on the Dardanelles defenses. In preparation for the naval attempt to force the Dardanelles in March 1915, the world's first aircraft carrier, HMS Ark Royal, was dispatched to conduct aerial reconnaissance flights. A naval air squadron, No. 3 Squadron RNAS, arrived in theatre on 28 March 1915 and continued mapping Turkish defenses. Aerial intelligence reports supplemented the daily Intelligence Bulletins published by the Cairo War Office throughout March and April 1915 which detailed the Turkish 5 Army's order of battle. In short, the commanders had a good appreciation on the Gallipoli defenses and planned their amphibious assaults accordingly. The ANZAC solution was to mount a silent night surprise attack to gain the beachhead before the dawn on 25 April 1915. The stories describing landing on the wrong beach are simply false. The ANZAC landing beach - Z Beach - had a 6,500 metre frontage. ANZAC Cove was in the centre of Z Beach. The ANZAC surprise attack proved to be successful. Orders and intelligence reports can be found in "36 Days: the Untold Story Behind the Gallipoli Landings", Pan Macmillan 2010.

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