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Originally posted by sapper:
It meant that the British would be faced with the daunting prospect of taking on the massed Panzers, or what was left of them. Leibstandart Adolf Hitler SS Panzer…. Das Reich SS panzer…. SS Panzer Lehr …. 12 SS Panzer. Hitler Youth…21st SS Panzer…. 9th SS Panzer…..10th SS Panzer……17th SS Panzer….. 116 SS Panzer…. The Vienna SS Panzer….Not to mention the German Para’s. All in all, what faced us was a formidable armoured and Panzer Grenadier force.
All of this we faced, and beat! While over in the West the yanks concentrated on the peninsula. When at last the Americans broke out against weak opposition, their flying columns spread out across undefended France.
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Sapper has made an interesting point here. We have had this discussion elsewhere on this site, about the performance of Allied units in Normandy, and from the mouth of someone who was there we have what most British soldiers thought at the time - that they had spent 70+ days battering away at full strength, elite German units, taking heavy losses, while relieving pressure on the American sector and allowing a breakout in August; which the dear old Yanks take the credit for!
This is a point of view we rarely see in films like SPR where poor old Monty is always the goon...
