All these various proposed plans were just so much pie in the sky without supplies running through Antwerp. And the high command, Eisenhower,...
I tend to believe that in the absence of an eastern front against the Soviets, the only way the Western Allies could have defeated Germany is with...
It bears mentioning that in these battles where the USMC casualties reached 25-30% and they kept going, the enemy had also suffered similar (or...
Just finished Rick Atkinson's The Day of Battle which is about the Sicilian and Italian campaigns as a whole (up to the fall of Rome) and it...
There's truly nothing to base that on.... I suppose folks letting personal feelings about many of his public comments influence their choice........
I heard (in a documentary) that the reason the Joint Chiefs signed off on a liberation of Luzon was not because of anything MacArthur said, or any...
Certainly the Allies suffered a lot more casualties in the Hurtgen Forest than in Market Garden and gained...... nothing. A patch of woods...
If I may pick this back up, there is no enlisted person at the paygrade of E-4 (Petty Officer 3rd Class) or higher in the USN, then or now, who is...
I can see how one could mistake a destroyer for a cruiser.... but I've never seen an oiler that looked like a carrier. Always wondered about that....
One gets the idea the authors believe the Allies should have done something bold.... like Market Garden.
I'd put the blame squarely on Allied intelligence estimates of German forces in and around Arnhem, which gets back to it being a "rush job" as I...
And that's the thing.... even with Arnhem in Allied possession, there'd have been the same supply problems there were before the operation kicked off.
Not at all, not at all. Outside of Op MG I find little fault with Montgomery (I know everybody was waiting all these years to find out whether or...
All I would have said to Ike is that Antwerp is more important than Arnhem. Ike's broad front idea at that time was the right one IMO.
Yes you're right, poor choice of words on my part. The consequence of failure being "only" lives does prove it was not a major risk.
but as a recent arrival to this forum I shall beat it some more...... From my study of the operation I can only conclude that there was no one in...
Flunked out of West Point not once but twice, and still got to be a 3 star general.
Even from early on, Churchill was looking at the post-war picture, and this factored largely into his Greek/Balkan decisions. After NA had been...
Had his arguments had no merit, they'd have been easily dismissed.
Surrendering to the Western Allies in early 1943 was about the best fate a German soldier could hope for (with the benefit of hindsight)....
