Must say that at times Ike seemed to be too far away from the front in his HQ, then again at times when forced he did some tough decisions, too. Somewhow though he managed to keep it all together. Don´t know if anyone else had the nerves/capability to it?

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Patton and slapping incident ( Ike let Patton back to "work" even if the scandal might have required sending him back to the US so Patton owed Ike )

General Patton was relieved of his command of the 7th Army on 31
December 1943, more than four months after the "slapping incident".
This long time span between the incident and the consequences may seem
odd at first sight; but the "slapping incident" did not become a
public scandal before late November 1944. On 1 January 1944, General
Mark W. Clark became acting commander of the 7th Army, until General
Alexander M. Patch took command on 2 March 1944.

Later, General Patton was commander of the 3rd Army from 26 January
1944 to 7 October 1945. That means, his time without a command was
considerably short, only 26 days in January 1944.

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The final command collision happened after the Battle of the Bulge.Picking the absolute worst time to further upset the supreme allied commander, Montgomery sent Eisenhower another letter demanding that he be promoted to ground-force commander of all allied forces facing Germany. He had finally pushed Ike beyond his limit of endurance with respect to such blatant insubordination. Montgomery’s press conference, the resulting British press reports, and the letter demanding promotion all combined to blatantly suggest to the world that Ike could not handle battle command.

Eisenhower convened a staff meeting at his headquarters, which Monty’s Chief of Staff Major General Francis de Guingand attended, and announced that he was relieving Montgomery of command. Ike circulated a cable he would send the Joint Chiefs of Staff requesting Monty’s removal from office. Unlike his boss, Freddie de Guingand fully recognized that Montgomery would lose in any open confrontation and implored Ike to give him 24 hours to sort out the situation with Montgomery. Reluctantly, Ike agreed.

General de Guingand immediately flew to Montgomery’s headquarters in Brussels and informed him that he would be replaced. It had not dawned on Monty that he had finally pushed Eisenhower too far and that he would lose his command. A chagrined Montgomery sat down and penned a letter to Eisenhower which he began with “Dear Ike” and ended with the words, “Very distressed that my letter may have upset you and I would ask you to tear it up. Your very devoted subordinate, Monty.”

Eisenhower Memorial Commission: Ike and Monty

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