Inadequate leaders are the bane of our existence and so many good young men were squandered because of them.
People may say what they will about the idiosyncrasies of George Patton or Douglas MacArthur - but they would never have allowed this atrocity to happen the way that it did.
My many of the WW2 vets it’s been my privilege to know often felt their worst enemies weren’t the Germans or the Japanese, it was their own officers. I’ve never met any veteran of the ETO who had anything good to say about British General Bernard Montgomery. One vet who survived D-Day, the Hurtgen(where he was wounded) The Bulge and all the way to the Rhine told me flat out, “I’d a shot that Limey c***er quicker than I’d have shot Hitler’’.