Not saying that the war would have been definitely over by Xmas 1944 if the garrisons had been handed to the allies as the front moved, but certainly the fact that supplies were brought all the way from Normandy for a long time caused problems in the allied fighting capability. Would Patton and Monty have gotten their fuel at the same time if the ports closer to their troops would have been in use, and would that mean that the attack would have continued straight away?

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