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Originally Posted by curious
I always wondered why any sane person would ever allow that timid old woman Montgomery plan anything more adventurous than a tea party. Take the Italian campaign. Why invade Sicily at all? It is not a strategic target.
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I'll ignore the unwarrented slur on Monty, and point out a basic fact, which if you knew anything about the military stratagy of the US and and GB in WW2 you would already know, Monty did not choose to invade Sicily, he was ordered too, by the Allied governments
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McArthur never fought a battle that was not of strategic significance, and MacArthur's entire pacific campaign after the fall of the Philipines suffered fewer casualties than the battle of Anzio.
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According to a number of Americans, McArthur's whole campaign was of little strategic significance, according to them, it would have been far better if the Japanese troops had been left to 'wither on the vine' and concentrate on the island hopping campaign to attack Japan directly
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