"I heard it on the radio"....

Patton had just heard he had lost his command of the 7th army following victory in Sicily. In the next scene his assistant George says "I heard it on the radio", General Bradley has been given command of the European invasion.

Given that the invasion was one of the most secretive operations in military history why would that truthful news be announced over radio waves? I do not think it was.

In the following scene we find out about Patton's role as a ruse to have the Germans assume the invasion will be at the Port of Calais with him as commander.

This is a film I love, a great film. It just irks me that they depict a 3 star general receiving really important news from an assistant(George was a Sergeant, not an officer) who got that news over a radio. That never made sense to me.