Kai

I don't think that is the case. Patton was chewing miles south of the germans. He was virtually unopposed and could do as he pleased.

My point is that the germans had shot their bolt, and by the time Lüttich got underway there was no escape for them. (Germans)

The roads were clogged with traffic, and the 3rd US army set up it's guns for the Turkey shoot.

I have read a few accounts by people inside the pocket and outside the pocket. The Germans don't list the Jabos as the worst enemy, but artillery spotter planes. This fits in nicely with Talmander and Zetterling's writings of the over-estimated close support from USAF and RAF. But then again I have read the direct opposite from others...

What there is little doubt over is that the Falaise pocket meant the death of an army.

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'We march. The enemy is retreating in transport. We follow on foot.' Lt.Neil McCallum 5/7 Gordons 19th November 1942