Comments by "TheVilla Aston" (@thevillaaston7811) on "No, Monty didn't make a "Blunder" during the Battle of the Bulge (with the 82nd Airborne)" video.

  1. No.
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  2. Its a definite no. The Germans took hardly any notice of Patton during the war. He did not even rate a German dossier before D-Day.
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  3. 'I'm sorry that British troops on leave were knitting gloves and singing in the church choir!' Really?.. where is this on record?
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  4.  @mgt2010fla  Perhaps you are confusing them with the US forces that failed to secure the Nijmegen Bridge before XXX Corps arrived at Nijmegen City? Who can say?
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  5.  @mgt2010fla  What was it to do with British forces? They were preparing for VERITABLE. But XXX Corps had to be drawn away to help sort out Eisenhower's mess. The Bulge was a problem of the Americans own making. As Alanbrooke observed at the time: ARTHUR BRYANT TRIUMPH IN THE WEST 1943-46 COLLINS, ST JAMES’S PLACE, LONDON 1959 P 366 ‘There was no doubt that the Americans had had a severe shock. Their commanders had chosen to ignore the two most elementary rules of war – concentration and the possession of a reserve to counter the enemy’s moves and keep the initiative.’
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  6. Not at all. MARKET GARDEN stretched German defences another 50 miles.
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  7. 'Eisenhower made the right decision and for once Montgomery did too' Montgomery had been making right decisions throughout the SIX year war. 'The problem arose when dear ol' reliable Monty blatantly tried to take credit for the whole battle after it was over.' That did not happen.
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  8.  @larryvanmillion  'the u.s blunted the northern thrust by the time monty was tasked to clean up the lines.' Not according these people: “I find it difficult to refrain from expressing my indignation at Hodges and Ridgeway and my appreciation of Montgomery whenever I talk about St. Vith. It is my firm opinion that if it hadn't been for Montgomery, the First US Army, and especially the troops in the St. Vith salient, would have ended in a debacle that would have gone down in history.” ”I'm sure you remember how First Army HQ fled from Spa leaving food cooking on the stoves, officers' Xmas presents from home on their beds and, worst of all, top secret maps still on the walls... First Army HQ never contacted us with their new location and I had to send an officer to find them. He did and they knew nothing about us...(Montgomery) was at First Army HQ when my officer arrived. A liaison officer from Montgomery arrived at my HQ within 24 hrs. His report to Montgomery is what saved us...” - Major General Robert W. Hasbrouck, commander, 7th Armoured Division. “Generals of the Bulge” by Jerry D. Morelock, page 298. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd6LrT7Zrjo&ab_channel=USArmyWarCollege 1hr, 4 minutes, 30 seconds onwards. ‘The operations of the American 1st Army had developed into a series of individual holding actions. Montgomery's contribution to restoring the situation was that he turned a series of isolated actions into a coherent battle fought according to a clear and definite plan. It was his refusal to engage in premature and piecemeal counter-attacks which enabled the Americans to gather their reserves and frustrate the German attempts to extend their breakthrough’. Hasso von Manteuffel. Commander, 5th Panzer Army. 'what major battle did the brits have in the north bulge ?' So what is this about? Montgomery? Or Britain?
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  9. Rubbish.
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  10. Montgomery was nothing to do with Bastogne. MARKET GARDEN freed a fifth of the Netherlands, hindered German rocket attacks on London, stretched German defences another fifty miles, and left the allies well placed to attack into Germany in the months ahead. MARKET GARDEN’s casualties (17,000), should be compared to allied failures in the same period at Aachen (20,000 casualties), the Lorraine Campaign (45,000 casualties), and the Hurtgen Forest (55,000 casualties). The threat of V2 Rocket attacks on London, alone justified MARKET GARDEN.
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  11. Patton did not even rate a German dossier before D-Day.
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  12. The story is a pile of rubbish. The incident never happened.
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  13.  @angloaust1575  The only source for the lunatic story that Montgomery was detained by US troops is 'Killing Patton' by some hack authors called Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. Montgomery's only visit to the Bulge battle area is well documented . He travelled from his headquarters in Zonhoven in Belgium to Hodges's headquaters at Chaudfontaine in Belgium on the 20th December 1944. A distance of of approximately 45 miles. He arrived at Hodges's headquaters at 1pm, stayed for three hours and then returned to Zonhoven and there exchanged cable messages with Eisenhower. Montgomery's activities in his visit to the First Army HQ are well known. THE GUNS AT LAST LIGHT THE WAR IN WESTERN EUROPE, 1944-1945 Rick Atkinson LITTLE BROWN 2013. P 448 ‘At 12.52 p.m., a SCHAEF log entry confirmed that “Field Marshall Montgomery has been placed in charge of the northern flank.” He would command the U.S. First and Ninth Armies, as well as his own army group; Twelfth Army Group was left with only Patton’s Third Army. P449 ‘Having been alerted to the impending command change at 2:30 Wednesday morning, he dispatched a major to Chaudfontaine for a “bedside conference” with Hodges who was roused from his sleep to learn that four British divisions were moving towards the Meuse to secure he riverbanks and bridges. Roadblocks also had been built on the Brussels highway with vehicles and carts. ‘The field marshal himself arrived at Chaudfontaine at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday in a green Rolls-Royce flying a Union Jack and five-star pennant from the front fenders, accompanied by outrider jeeps with red-capped MPS. As usual he was dressed without orthodoxy in fur-lined boots, baggy corduroy trousers and as many as eight pullovers. “Unwrapping the bearskin in which he was enveloped,” Iris Carpenter reported, “he picked up his box of Sandwiches, his thermos jug of tea and his situation map chalked over with his grease pencil, and marched inside.’ ‘Politely declining Hodges’s offer of lunch—“Oh, no, I’ve got my own” — he propped his map on a chair and said calmly “ Now let’s review this situation…The first thing we must do is to tidy up the battlefield.”’ ‘Three hours later they had both a plan and an understanding. Hodges and his staff appeared tired and dispirited, British officers later reported, but determined to hold fast.’
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  14. You wont need two hands to count them.
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  15. You were there?
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