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Originally Posted by 4th wilts  it was bradley,s folly ,the chance to stop 5 panzer divs or what remained of them.bradley later lamented,those troops were green.ireckon he was too conservative.dont worry i wont call him a ,you know what.yours,lee. |
Well who was in overall command at that time, Monty or Ike? that is who the folly lies with. Personally I think it is too easy to say that it was someone's fault. Hindsight is a great Critic and I wonder if we were in Monty or Ike's shoes would we have done as well. The fact remained that the Germans as an Army were finished in France and Falaise ensured that there would be no repeat of the First World War nor would there be the problems of forcing river crossings. When Hitler ordered the attack towards Mortain he handed the Allies the keys to France.