Comments by "John Brereton" (@johnbrereton5229) on "Biographics"
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There are a few mistakes in this video. Normandy wasn't the largest amphibious landing of WW2, Sicily was. Though nearly 133,000 landed in Normandy, 150,000 landed in Sicily from 3000 ships. Also Pattons behaviour there was not what you would expect from an officer, apart from attacking his own soldiers and ordering POWs to be shot in cold blood. Also later Montgomery wanted him to encircle the German troops he had pinning down but Patton ignored his messages and went in the opposite direction to take the capital city of Palermo which was of no tactical importance and so, poorly defended. Later with Montgomery still pushing the Germans up the coastal road he asked Patton to use the only other road on his side of the island to head for Messina and come in behind the Germans and again cut off their retreat . However, by the time he got there, in fact just before the British and despite them fighting their way along the destroyed costal road, the Germans had gone. Patton later claimed he had won the 'Race to Messina' but there was no race Montgomery had asked him to take it, though Patton thought it was a trick, but it wasnt . Eisenhower relieved Patton of his command after Sicily and awarded Monty the highest miltary award he could bestow on a foreign commander. Also Market Garden was actualy proposed by Eisenhower though based on a previous idea of Montys that he had rejected.
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