Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "This forgotten amphibious assault was BIGGER than D-Day" video.

  1.  @robertcottam8824  I suspect that to many of these people Montgomery's greatest sin was that of being born in the wrong country.
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  2. Patton was not involved in the 'D-Day advances.' He arrived in Normandy only at the end of July. There was no 'Race to Messina,' except perhaps in Patton's mind, but more likely in the 1970 comedy movie based on Ladislas Farago's hagiography about Patton. 'Wish you would get your Historic facts straight. The US bailed out England, France, most of Africa and Italy.' Getting such facts straight doesn't seem to have interested you much, does it?
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  3. Out of interest, after the North African campaign had concluded in May, 1943, and what became Overlord was around a year away from being a possibility, what would you suggest should have been done with the vast quantity of allied resources already in the theatre?
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  4.  @pacificostudios  What 'allied shipping in the Mediterranean?' Merchant vessels rarely used it, except for supply runs to Malta, and the threat to Malta had largely dissipated after Pedestal in August, 1942, and Stoneage in November, 1942. Crete, Sardinia, and Corsica were as relevant as the Channel Islands to the overall prosecution of the war, Crete in particular being, at best, a Pyrrhic victory which effectively destroyed the German paratroop arm, which thereafter was used as a ground force only. Taking Corsica would have forced Germany to fortify the Provence more than they did.' Why? Certainly to nothing like the extent that the Germans were obliged to occupy Italy, and send their troops there. An assault on Norway would still have involved moving Allied resources back to Britain from the Mediterranean, and the benefit to the Soviet Union was likely to have been slight. The distances involved, and the crossing of the North Sea, in Autumn & Winter, would increase the hazardous nature of such an operation. Indeed, hitler's fixation on Norway as the Zone of Destiny' resulted in 350,000 being based there at the time of surrender in May, 1945. Why would the Allies attempt such an operation when the same result, that of keeping a large number of German units away from the main battlefront, by means of a deception plan, Operation Fortitude North?
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  5. You shouldn't believe all you see in the 1970 comedy movie.
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  6.  @robertcottam8824  I just love the idea that Montgomery was responsible for the relief of Anzio, when the Anzio landings took place in January, 1944.'
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  7. Didn't your research tell you about the width, or rather lack the lack of width, of the Strait of Messina?
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  8. Indeed. The British and Canadians facing, and fighting to a standstill, 8 Panzer Divisions (mainly SS) and 3 Independent Tiger Battalions ( all SS), around Caen after the Normandy landings was something of a problem. For the Germans, that is.
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  9.  @karlheinzvonkroemann2217  The Okinawa invasion was supported by a fleet consisting of 18 battleships, 27 cruisers, 177 destroyers/destroyer escorts, and 39 aircraft carriers (11 fleet carriers, 6 light carriers and 22 escort carriers). Overlord involved 1,213 allied warships.
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  10. You don't think that the presence of massive allied forces in Tunisia might have been relevant? Of course it was!
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  11. But how much in the way of manpower and resources did the Italian campaign divert from the Eastern Front or, later, Normandy?
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  12. Because at points it is less than ten miles wide.
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