Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Operation Market Garden | What went wrong?" video.

  1. I recall reading an account of Ike taking Monty on a tour of the battlefield at Gettysburg after his presidency. Ike showed Monty the open ground Pickett's Charge had to cover and asked him what he thought of the decision to order the charge. Monty responded that had he ordered such a futile and poorly planned out attack during WWII Ike would have been well within his rights to fire him on the spot. I wonder if Ike saw the irony in Monty's statement since Monty's ego would never allow him to link such a comment with Operation Market Garden. But, Monty wasn't the only general in that war who made some bad tactical decisions. I listened to a former Marine who said if he would have been able to get his hands on the commanding general who ordered him and his platoon onto the beach at Tarawa he would have spent the rest of his short life on death row at Leavenworth. At the end of the day though the Nazi's were defeated but it was always going to be slog. Ask the Russians about that reality.
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