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Originally Posted by plant-pilot Anyone able to post the exact quote from the book? Might make the problem a little clearer. Rather than us all commenting about hear say. |
"By the start of September all the transport reserves of 21st Army Group were on the road. Imports were cut from 16000 tons a day to 7000 so that transport companies could be diverted from unloading ships to forward supply. This gain, however, was almost offset by the alarming discovery that the engines of 1400 British-built 3-tonners (and all the replacement engines for this particular model) had faulty pistons which rendered them useless. These trucks could have delivered to the Belgian border another 800 tons a day, sufficient to maintain 2 divisions."
Given that Wilmot was a BBC reporter who landed in Normandy on D-Day by glider and so knows what he is talking about, AND that he references this story to a British Army publication, it probably happened.