Comments by "Big Woody" (@bigwoody4704) on "TIKhistory"
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In The Last Offensive, the U.S. Army’s official account of Operation Varsity and the final drive into Germany, Charles B. MacDonald, a veteran infantry officer who had served with the 23d Infantry, 2d Infantry Division, in Europe in World War II, stated that with the weak condition of German units east of the Rhine, “some overbearing need for the special capability of airborne divisions would be required to justify their use, ” and that the specific need never existed. the objectives were important, the ground forces could have taken them without difficulty, and in all likelihood, with fewer casualties.
As evidence, he pointed out that the amphibious crossings faced very little resistance; the two American divisions in the river assault, the 30th and 79th Infantry Divisions, lost a total of forty-one killed, 450 wounded, and seven missing. James A. Huston, in his book, Out of the Blue: U.S. Army Airborne Operations in World War II, agreed with MacDonald, adding that “had the same resources been employed on the ground, it is conceivable that the advance to the east may have been more rapid than it was.”
Jack Ariola US Soldier in side a glider
"the anti-aircraft fire was so thick we could have got out and walked on it. Bullets and FLAK were coming thru the glider and every time one hit the bottom glider and came out the top it sounded like the crack of a whip only 10 times louder
Otto Leitner, German Lieutenant "with so many aircraft it was difficult not to hit something. I ordered my men to keep firing in the hope to fill the sky with metal and damage the aircraft"
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How come Field Marshall Walter Model & Fallschirmjager General Kurt Student was able to ferry tanks and troops over, rivers and canals under the ever watchfull RAF at Pannerden,and Horrocks/Montgomery could NOT do the same?Not in September, not in October and not in November Montgomery
This from Seth 1422 who throttled your sorry self
Sunset on the first day, September 17, was at 19:50, darkness was at 20:30. When the Irish Guard halted at 19:30 it also was not in contact with the enemy, so advance in darkness was not impossible. Sunrise on the 18th was at 07:15, meaning that the Irish Guards did not move for half of the available daylight on the second day. No Irish Guard tanks were destroyed immediately, but instead contact with the enemy was made around 16:00. It should also be noted that according to JOE Vandaleur’s own account, he had lunch with his cousin and a female reporter, then went for a swim in a roadside villa before starting the Guards moving on September 18th. Whatever resistance they did ultimately encountered late that afternoon could have only been an increase on what they might have faced with a swift advance at 07:30. So that is the place where swifter advance was possible. The Irish Guards had suffered badly the first day, so I understand their reluctance to smash ahead. But if that formation was spent it should have been rotated out before dawn. These delays only made the Germans better able to obstruct the road.
According to the one British officer Major Hibbert of 1st para starting here https://youtu.be/50ogHjrQFBE?t=2282 in this video they had disabled the charges on the Bridge. So if accurate and I believe he would know Horrocks tankers sitting back on the Nijmegen Bridge could have made it. But they didn't move even though elements of the 82nd wanted to carry the fight forward.It's interesting....and unfortunate
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LMAO EVERYONE? you bark bombast expecting to be taken at your word that has more holes than one of Monty's battle plans,it was the deal 89 men lost their lives crossing the Rhine to carry the column in and they stop for what? There was only one gun on the road according to the Germans themselves. We never expect much from you and you never fail to disappoint. You never found a source for your 2 armies on the flanks - because they only exist in you bent imagination. It's better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt
Arnhem: The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944,by Willam Buckingham,p309 at the North end of the Bridge Major Cook's paratroopers had fully expected the Guards Amored Division to push on immediately for Arnhem just 10 miles up the road.Their elation turned toward anger as the growing British force remained immobile. LT Patrick Murphy from 3rd Battalion,504th Regiment climbed aboard Sg Robinson's tank and urged him to move only to be informed by the willing Robinson that he had no orders to do so.Capt.Burris was reportedly so furious he threatened the deputy commander of no.1 Squadron Capt.Peter (Lord) Carrington with his Thompson gun,Carrington dropped inside the tank and locked the hatch
The puzzlement was shared by British Officer LT Brian Wilson's platoon from the 3rd Irish Guards had been among the 1st to cross the road bridge in the wake of SgT Robinson's troops and after an night of sitting Wilson stopped at Company HQ "as far as I could discover Nijmegen was cleared....the situation at Arnhem remained desperate.Yet Guards Armored did not move"
German Colonel Heinz Harmel's view the British failure to advance rapidly North from Nijmegen Bridge squandered the last chance to reach 1st Para still clinging to the north end of the Arnhem Bridge. *Because at that time there was virtually no German troops between the two points. And that remained the case for up to 16 hrs until the Germans were able to fully access the Arnhem Bridge midday on Sept 21st and bring reinforcements south. By halting XXX Corp effectively handed the intiative back to II SS Panzerkorps which used the time to erect an effective defense where none had existed as the Irish Guards discovered when it finally attempted to resume the advance at 13:30 on 21 September. Why the Guards Armored failed to push on remains controversial
Arnhem,The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944,by Willam Buckingham,p.358 LT Brian Wilson of the 3rd Irish Guards recalled patrols of US Paratroopers constantly roaming through his location while "for our part" we just sat in our positions all night As Heinz Harmel later put it the English stopped for tea the 4 tanks who crossed the Bridge made a mistake staying in Lent, if they carried on their advance it would have been all over for us A rapid and concentrated relief effort across the lower Rhine never happened because the Irish Guards remained immobile for hours in darkness and beyond as the Guards Armored Division had collectively done since Operation Garden commenced
Arnhem,The Complete Story of Operation Market Garden 17-25 September 1944,by Willam Buckingham,p.359 as LT Brian Wilson put it the situation at Arnhem remained desperate yet the Guards Armored Division did not move While the Germans used the windfall respite to organize their blocking line.
So the Germans/GIs/Irish Guards there - then are in agreement - XXX Corp was not only slow but stopped.Set the scotch down and go to bed.
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Mikey You yammering ham - Bradley wasn't there he was in Luxembourg. And Monty almost got relieved he did nothing
THE ARDENNES CAMPAIGN
By Don R. Marsh
Monty's orders were to withdraw farther west on the 24th to form a defense line and "tidy up the front" without taking any action Our 2nd Armored Division CO, Major General Ernest Harmon disregarded that order and moved to block the advance near the village of Ciney. The Recon scouts sent word that the Germans had stopped near Celles, apparently to allocate the fuel now in short supply." "At 1435 hours Harmon told VII Corps, "We've got the whole damned 2nd Panzer Division in a sack! You've got to give me immediate authority to attack!" Despite Collins disobeying Monty's orders, he gave Harmon the OK. "At 1625 hours Harmon told VII Corps, "The bastards are in the bag!" On this day the German 2nd Panzer Division trapped and unable to maneuver was destroyed. The enemy lost 81 tanks, 7 assault guns, 405 vehicles of all types, plus 74 big guns. An actual account of the enemy killed and captured was not recorded. It ceased as a fighting force. The German 9th Panzer Division desperately attempted to rescue the 2nd Panzer, but was beaten back with severe losses."
Ardennes 1944:The Battle of the Bulge,page366 While undoubtedly an American Triumph,the Ardennes campaign produced a political defeat for the British. And as Churchill recognized there was a much greater consequence. Montgomery would find himself sidelined once across the Rhine on the advance into Germany and all British advice was ignored.The Country's influence was at an end The German and Allied casualties in the Ardennes fighting from 16 December 1944 to 29 January 1945 were fairly equaled.
--German losses were around 80,000 dead,wounded,missing.
--The Americans suffered 75,482 casualties,with 8,407 KIA.
--The British lost 1,408 wounded of whom 200 were killed.
So both Collins and Harmon ignored monty who wanted to fall back then VII Corps went forward to finish off 2nd Panzer and sent 9th Panzer retreating. The British lost 200 KIA while GIs lost 8,500 killed and the Germans had more in 6 weeks of fighting mike kenny you lying lump
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Bradley took Normandy while the poof Bernard camped around Caen with the largest Bombing of the Normandy Campaign, Naval guns 12 miles away lobbing shells in also with Air corp right across the channel and the laggard still muffed it
My Three Years With Eisenhower,by Capt.Harry C.Butcher,p.617 July 19,1944Monty had a press conference yesterday at which he said that at least 156,000 Germans had been killed or wounded since D-Day.Yet in the big push east & south of Caen only 2,500 prisoners were taken. IKE said yesterday that with 7000 tons of bombs dropped(around Caen) in the most elaborate bombing of enemy front line positions ever accomplished,only 7 miles were gained can we afford 1000 tons of bombs per mile?The air people are completely disgusted with the lack of progress
My Three Years with EisenHower,By Harry C.Butcher,p.632 August 4,1944 "At the SHAEF forward War Room last evening,I learned that the Allies had captured some 78,000 Germans,of which the British captured 14,000.The remainder falling into American hands.This information was reported on August 1st.Since which we have captured 4,000 a day"
My Three Years with Eisenhower," by Captain Harry C. Butcher,p. 651 On August 21, 1944, Butcher wrote about the British reaction to the news that an American General, Omar Bradley, was now equal to their own General Montgomery within the Allied command. "I find that British pride, which seems to have been hurt by the relative slowness of advance of the British-Canadian front as compared to the more newsworthy break-through of the Americans at St. Lo and subsequent end runs, has been hurt even more by the misunderstanding as to Montgomery's command.
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again you talk shyt bradley and collins took their objective,monty needed the massive bombings and shellings. Try reading a book or have your handler or mum do it for you. Then you may leave some sources. or try using the the search bar above to relieve me of furthering your education. Monty and you both need to be spoon fed. US forces captured over 3/4 of the prisoners. Truth hurts - always does. Russia and the USA were now dealing the cards slappy.
St. Lô 1944: The Battle of the Hedgerows, by Steven J. Zaloga
Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz, commanding the German 84th Army Corps, the battle was “a monstrous blood-mill, the likes of which I have not seen in my 11 years of battle.”
By the beginning of July 1944—three weeks after D-Day—Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, was not progressing as rapidly as anticipated. The British Second Army had yet to secure one of its primary objectives, the pivotal crossroads city of Caen, effectively halting its advance on Paris before it began. To block the Second Army the Germans had deployed a staggering force of tanks and armored fighting vehicles along a tight 20-mile front.
Farther to the west the American First Army under Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley had just achieved its first tactical objective by seizing the port city of Cherbourg, on the northern tip of the Cotentin Peninsula.“The Battle of the Hedgerows involved no dramatic advances or decisive maneuvers,” Zaloga summed up. “It was a grinding battle of attrition.” The ultimate butcher’s bill was staggering. In less than three weeks of brutal, relentless fighting the First Army suffered more than 40,000 casualties.American troops occupied Saint-Lô proper on July 18.
The Battle of the Hedgerows and capture of what remained of Saint-Lô and its neighboring towns opened the gate to Bradley’s Operation Cobra, which enabled Patton’s historic armored breakthrough and race across France, the liberation of Paris and, in less than a year, the defeat of Germany
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