Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "Why The Allies Struggled To Break Out After D-Day | Normandy '44: | War Stories" video.

  1. Why this fixation with real estate? The importance of Caen was not the town itself, but the fact that it was a route centre. The requirement was that the route centre, not the town, be denied to the Germans. The result was that eight Panzer Divisions and three Tiger Batallions were drawn into the battles around Caen, (where the British & Canadians fought them to a standstill) rather than being able to counter attack the beachheads, or move westward to oppose the US forces.
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  2.  @KrisBurns22  You don't think that facing eight Panzer Divisions and three independent Tiger batallions might have played a part? Presumably not, given the infantile nature of your original reply.
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  3.  @ditto1958  You don't think that revising the Overlord plan and then executing it was important, then?
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