Comments by "Barrie Rodliffe" (@barrierodliffe4155) on "Operation Market Garden: The British Army's Costly Disaster | Battles Won u0026 Lost | War Stories" video.

Little Blockhead, You really have no idea.
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@akgeronimo501 You have a very distorted view of WW II, not really surprising since you have been brought up with the Hollywood history.
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Just as you know nothing about Market Garden.
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@iemjgf Quite simply to advance on Dunkirk would have cost the Germans plenty, many of their tanks needed maintenance which had to wait for support to catch up and they needed the tanks for the rest of France which did not surrender until later, also the terrain around Dunkirk was unsuitable for tanks. At best it is possible that Germany could have prevented the evacuation but at what cost?
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@akgeronimo501 You obviously did not read the full comment. I bet you do not even know that Eisenhower was in command and had rejected Montgomery's plan Comet and insisted that Market Garden go ahead.
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@bigwoody4704 What Montgomery did was to instill confidence in the troops that they could defeat Rommel and they did, he did much the same for the two US armies he took charge of in the Battle of the Bulge. I guess that you have never read anything ever written by Montgomery. Try reading the book by Chuck Yeager if you really want self serving. At least Patton got himself killed before he could write a book on how he won every battle including the Normandy invasion.
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Little Blockhead, go back to school. Montgomery made the victory at Normandy possible and he went on to save the US troops in the Battle of the Bulge. Maybe Bradley or Patton should have been dismissed for their failures.
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@donalhartman6235 Montgomery did not plan Market Garden, he had planned D Day.
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@stillsmokntrees No, he didn't. Lieutenant-General Frederick Morgan and his team of British, Canadian and American officers submitted plans in July 1943 In December 1943 Eisenhower was appointed to lead a coalition of allied forces, he was in overall command, he did not do the planning, Montgomery was in charge of the actual invasion and he was more involved in the planning than Eisenhower.
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@stillsmokntrees Why? It would not tell me anything new. The simple fact is that Eisenhower rejected every idea Montgomery had come up with until Montgomery proposed Market Garden which Eisenhower not only approved but insisted that it go ahead.
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Yet Montgomery did not plan Market Garden. The planning was done by two US officers and the failure was the result of the US airborne 82nd and 101st failing to take their bridges. It still achieved plenty including saving many thousands of Dutch from starvation.
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@jormugand5578 Since Montgomery was far more than just a capable commander who did not drop the ball. Market Garden was only proposed by Montgomery and he did so because his other proposed operations were all rejected by Eisenhower. Montgomery did not plan where the airborne divisions were to land. Was Montgomery to blame at all? No, maybe if Eisenhower had accepted another of Montgomery's proposals things would be different, Had Patton done anything to help Market Garden it may have been different. The fact remains that Market Garden which was a good idea was 90 % successful.
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@iemjgf It is not remembered that while Montgomery proposed Market Garden he did not do the planning. If he had been allowed to do the planning he would have made some rather important changes.
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@Johnny Carroll Not so, Montgomery proposed the operation, Eisenhower approved it, Montgomery had no part in the planning for the airborne assaults which were the only failure.
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@Johnny Carroll Montgomery proposed Comet which would involve British and Polish paratroops taking bridges, it evolved into Market Garden with Montgomery excluded from the airborne planning which was done by two US officers.
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@Johnny Carroll The two US officers who did the planning.
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@Johnny Carroll You still don't get it, Montgomery only proposed the idea, it was not his plan.
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@Johnny Carroll You really don't have a clue. Montgomery proposed the operation but did not plan it.
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@Johnny Carroll Since Montgomery was excluded from the planning he had no say in it. Sure he conceived the idea. You just hate Montgomery, maybe because he was British and for you the British could never be regarded as anything but useless.
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What does it feel like to be ignored?
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Little Wally. It just goes to show that Russia had as little idea about Normandy as you.
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Montgomery can't be blamed for Market Garden, he did not plan it.
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@akgeronimo501 I'll bet you don't know that Comet was more likely to be successful since Montgomery wanted to do what had worked so well at Pegasus bridge. US stuff ups do not make any difference to that.
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@akgeronimo501 It wasn't the 250 Sherman’s but the way the battle was fought.
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@akgeronimo501 You could have commanded and lost with ten times the force Montgomery had.
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@richardredseal3993 I notice you make up a lot, Caen was taken by the British and Canadians who had to take on the best German forces in France. Markey Garden was planned by two US officers, not by Montgomery. Montgomery achieved what hew others have and even saved the US in the Battle of the Bulge.
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Little Blockhead really should try to learn a bit of history.
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@thunderbird1921 Which particular operation?
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@jormugand5578 It is typical of ignorant people to try to rewrite history.
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@jormugand5578 I don't rewrite history, morons like you try to. Montgomery did conceive the idea for Market Garden after his original proposals had been rejected by Eisenhower. Eisenhower approved and in fact insisted that Market Garden go ahead. The planning which was done by two US officers did not involve Montgomery and since Market Garden did achieve quite a lot in spite of the errors made by these two US officers unlike the Hollywood version Market Garden saved thousands of Dutch from starvation, weakened the Germans and paved the way for the crossing of the Rhine. I certainly call you ignorant.
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@jormugand5578 When you tell lies you have no argument, goodbye loser.
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@jormugand5578 You might want to see someone. Your anti British nonsense does not help you. There are many award winning authors but not all are very good. There are numerous sources heavily influenced by Hollywood.
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@jormugand5578 You are just being ignorant.
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@jormugand5578 No surprise that you do not have a clue. I do not mind someone disagreeing with me if they know what they are talking about. Ignorant people tend to make fools of themselves just like you keep doing.
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Little Blockhead, a victim of ignorance joined 4 February 2018.
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Little Blockhead. You really have no idea about history.
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@Johnny Carroll Montgomery did have great success for every action he was in charge of, Market Garden and Montgomery was not in charge. Eisenhower not only approved Market Garden he insisted on it taking place. Do you blame Eisenhower? The planning of the airborne landings was not done by Montgomery. He had come up with the original plan but that was only because Eisenhower kept rejecting Montgomery's plans so Montgomery came up with the idea he thought Eisenhower would approve. This became Market Garden which we keep being told was a disaster and all Montgomery's fault. the truth is rather different, the failure did have some rather important effects including the liberation of much of Holland, the weakening of German defences and making the crossing of the Rhine possible earlier than it would have been. Could Montgomery cancel the operation? Eisenhower could have but didn't.
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@bigwoody4704 One very ignorant victim of the Hollywood version of history. Little Blockhead.
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@bigwoody4704 I guess you did not read any other page then. There was much more to it than just one thing.
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Little Blockhead. There is much that is not true about Market Garden including the fact that while Montgomery did propose it he did not do the planning, he had previously made other proposals which Eisenhower rejected but Eisenhower did not just approve Market Garden he insisted it go ahead and he intended that it should have support by Bradley and Patton. The funny thing is that Market Garden in spite of the US stuff ups was at least 90 % successful.
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@iemjgf Then you watched an interview full of lies. Eisenhower not only approved Market Garden he insisted it go ahead. The planning for the airborne side which was faulty was done by two US officers. .
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