Wow, that was quite a discussion about a post-WWII conflict between Russia and the Allies.

I am not talking about that. I am talking about the forces in the Allied armies fighting from Normandy onward. All of the Allied generals had to deal with limited logistical capability and the realities of the broad-front stategy of Eisenhower. If Ike had decided to give one of them logistical priority what difference would it have made. I chose Patton not because he was the most brilliant tactition, but because I have heard the most stories about him briddling under the restrictions imposed on him by the rationing of the supplies.

Is there someone else who would have done better in your opinions? I don't want to move the whole strategy of the war away from the broad-front to a narrow-front. I just want to imagine what difference any one corp commander whould have made with more priority. Faster closure of the Falaise Gap maybe? Quicker break out from Normandy? Faster liberation of Caen? Success in Operation Market-Garden? Let's hear it.

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