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To: EternalVigilance; colorado tanker

It seems an interesting mix of politics and military strategy that Eisenhower and the Senior Staff was dealing with including who should get the limited supplies - Patton or Monty and the British and Canadians.

Not sure what military strategy apart form politics made it seem like the groups in northeastern France and Belgium should trump the hard-driving Third Army headed straight for Germany and Berlin.


30 posted on 09/04/2014 10:21:54 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate over unjust law & government in the forum of ideas)
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To: PapaNew

They always intended the drive in the north to be the main event, because their first objective was to take the Ruhr. And they weren’t able to change enough as the circumstances changed.


31 posted on 09/04/2014 10:23:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
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To: PapaNew

Neutralizing the V1 and V2 rocket bases. British public opinion was demanding it, as a lot of civilians were dying from the inaccurate attacks.


36 posted on 09/05/2014 5:45:35 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
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