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Originally Posted by Carl W Schwamberger
That assumes the Germans would have deployed their corps the same way. They may have, but many German commanders still dismissed the US Army as inferior to the British and they would have been inclined to send more of the 'good' units towards the Briths sector, thinking that must be the more important area.
Anyone recall why the Allied armys were deployed as they were?
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The source I found (after looking for many years), gave the reason that the US troops were billeted in the South and the Brits to the North. To have each army assault opposite beaches would have required them to cross each other in transit. It further postulated that the decision was probably made early in the American build-up phase by some non-descript middle-level British billeting officer when the US numbers were low and he unknowingly had a major part in Allied stategy because of it.