| Was he not? I doubt that. Certainly he was in charge of the area of the Falaise bag. Of course the Americans were involved, but the real battle at the neck of the bag was fought by the Canadians and the Poles.
Patton? Oh he was off doing his own thing.. rampaging around the empty French countryside rather than join the battle to close the bag.
I fought with the Yanks and they are good lads, wont here a word against them. But it must be remembered that we took on the might of the Panzers to enable the Yanks to get on in the West. To such an extent that the whole oif the USA army at one time only had half a Panzer div to deal with......
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