Comments by "Bullet-Tooth Tony" (@Bullet-Tooth-Tony-) on "TIKhistory"
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@johnlucas8479 In hindsight, regarding Antwerp it seems that the order to stop might have been a mistake John.
Quote "The city and port fell to the 11th Armoured Division in early September, but Montgomery halted ... Corps for resupply short of the wide Albert Canal to the north of the city, which consequently remained in enemy hands.[94] Horrocks regretted this after the war believing that his corps might have advanced another 100 miles (160 km) with the fuel available.[95] Although some doubt this could have been achieved without delays,[93] it is now known that ... Corps was opposed by only one German division , although Allied forces were unaware of this at the time.[96] The pause allowed the Germans to regroup around the Scheldt River, and by the time the Allies resumed their advance, the First Paratroop Army (General Kurt Student) had arrived and set up strong defensive positions along the opposite side of the canal
Quote "the 11th Armoured Division could have advanced 18 Miles further North to the base of the South Beveland Peninsular, thereby preventing German movement to and from the Peninsular. As it was, no such order was given and consequently Von Zangen was able to extract the remnants of his Fifteenth Army from the pocket around Brekens by ferrying them across the Schelde, mostly by night and then moving along the South Beveland Peninsular and from there into Holland."
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@morden279
When it came to combat in the early years of the war, 1940-42, inexperience, poor doctrine (or poorly applied doctrine) and training, as well as strategic miscalculations meant that it's performance was mixed at best. Heading into 1944-45, there was also a serious manpower shortage that the British had to contend with, as well as the declining status of Britain in the Alliance and as a Great Power.
Despite this, the British Army proved to be a capable and innovative force, and the results achieved by Montgomery O'Connor and Horrocks in Northwestern Europe, Leese and McCreery in Italy, and of course Bill Slim in Burma, are testimony to that fact.
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" The only reason why Montgomery is still even thought of is due to British inadequacy over their ultimate contribution to victory in WWII. The Americans and mostly the Soviets defeated the Germans."
Bollocs, the British Empire stood alone for 20 months and after Dunkirk, it destroyed 30% of the fighting strength of the Luftwaffe, which was not fully rebuilt and entered the Soviet campaign greatly diminished.engaged the Germans in Africa, Greece, and tied up 300,000 German troops in Norway for the duration and captured 250,000 in Tunisia, destroyed the capital ship strength of the Kriegsmarine forcing them to rely on submarines, discovered the enigma codes that allowed the allies to decipher the German war plans, crushed 80% of the German armour in Normandy at Caen, which allowed the U.S 1st army to advance to Cherbourg, conquered all of Northern Germany and took the surrender of the German army at Luneberg in 1945
Not what I would consider inadequate.......
"And it was their commanders that directed the battle"
And for the record D-day was actually commanded by Frederick Morgan, Leigh Mallory, Admiral Ramsay and Bernard Montgomery not Ike.
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