Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "Just won by Numbers? 2nd Battle of El Alamein" video.

  1. Montgomery was fighting with the Qattara Depression on one side and the Med the other with vast minefields before him. He had to go right through the Axis as outflanking was impossible.
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  2. Deus Vult wrote: "Am I dumb ass ? " Yes you are unfortunately.
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  3. Idiots are idiots. Not worth engaging with.
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  4. Rommel, like many British generals before Monty constantly overran his supply lines. Monty never - not once, hence he never lost a battle and went through 9 countries defeating the Germans. The finest general in WW2.
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  5. Deus Vult You must stop making things up. Some facts for you. The British were the single biggest agents in the defeat of Nazi Germany. They were there from day one until the end. The so-called "invincible" Germans army tried and failed, with their allies, for two years in WW2 to defeat the British army in North Africa. The finest army in the world from mid 1942 onwards was the British. From El Alemein it moved right up into Denmark, through nine countries, and not once suffered a reverse taking all in its path. Over 90% of German armour in the west was destroyed by the British. Montgomery had to give the US armies an infantry role as they were not equipped to engage massed German SS armour. Montgomery stopped the Germans in every event they attacked him: ♦ August 1942 - Alem el Halfa ♦ October 1942 - El Alamein ♦ March 1943 - Medenine ♦ June 1944 - Normandy ♦ Sept/Oct 1944 - The Netherlands ♦ December 1944 - Battle of the Bulge Not on one occasion were Monty's ground armies pushed back into a retreat by the Germans. The US Army were struggling in 1944/45 retreating in the Ardennes. The Americans didn't perform well at all east of Aachen, then the Hurtgen Forest defeat with 33,000 casualties and Patton's Lorraine crawl of 10 miles in three months with over 50,000 casualties. The Battle of the Bulge took all the US effort, and vital help from Montgomery and the British 21st Army Group, just to get back to the start line. The Germans took 20,000 US POWs in the Battle of The Bulge in Dec 1944. No other allied country had that many prisoners taken in the 1944-45 timeframe. The USA retreat at the Bulge, again, the only allied army to be pushed back into a retreat in the 1944-45 timeframe. Montgomery was effectively in charge of the Bulge having to take control of the US 1st and 9th armies and parts of the US air force put under RAF command. The 9th stayed under his control until the end of the war just about. Normandy was planned and commanded by the British with Montgomery leading, which was a great success coming in ahead of schedule and with less casualties than predicted. The German armour in the west was wiped out by primarily the British - the US forces were impotent against the panzers. Monty assessed the US armies (he was in charge of them) and had to give them a supporting infantry role, as they were just not equipped to fight tank v tank battles. On 3 Sept 1944 when Eisenhower took over overall allied command of ground forces everything went at a snail's pace. The fastest advance of any western army in Autumn/early 1945 was the 60 mile thrust by the British XXX Corps to the Rhine at Arnhem.
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  6. Deus Vult You are an idiot.
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  7. Deus Vult I find it is best not to engage with idiots.
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  8. ilija stankovic Another uninformed idiot.
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