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To: Berlin_Freeper

I saw an interview with a German Field Marshall who was in prison in England at the time. He was asked who the best allied general was and he replied, “Montgomery and Patton were the best”.


2 posted on 03/14/2014 12:00:07 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: yarddog

Montgomery has been accused of much the same thing.


3 posted on 03/14/2014 12:03:04 PM PDT by bkepley
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To: yarddog

I also read where Eisenhower commented that General Simpson, never made a mistake during the entire war as far as he knew.


6 posted on 03/14/2014 12:05:11 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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He was asked who the best allied general was and he replied, “Montgomery and Patton were the best”.

Then the Germans were just as susceptible to the relentless self-promotion of those two as everyone else. The more I read about both of them, the less impressed I am.

8 posted on 03/14/2014 12:09:04 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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"Montgomery and Patton were the best".
Montgomery and Patton was the best. *fixed*..rem: "A Bridge Too Far".
his ignoring of the 2 Panzer Tank divisions within
miles of the drop zone doomed the operation.

12 posted on 03/14/2014 12:12:02 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: yarddog

Maybe because he actually faced those two. Bill Slim fought against the Japanese in World War II. Slim was a genuine military genuius, Montgomery I would rate as ‘competent’. He wasn’t a complete fool, but his arrogance sometimes led him to make foolish mistakes.

Orde Wingate was also a military genius, if somewhat lower down the pecking order and slightly prone to madness and eccentricity.


14 posted on 03/14/2014 12:20:26 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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Patton was good at a tactical level.

He was never up to par in formulating the logistics war, which was why Bradley superceded him, and why he was not considered in the same league as MacArthur and Eisenhower.

I haven’t studied the British command enough to know who all their big guns were.


29 posted on 03/14/2014 1:06:12 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: yarddog

Patton was good at a tactical level.

He was never up to par in formulating the logistics war, which was why Bradley superceded him, and why he was not considered in the same league as MacArthur and Eisenhower.

I haven’t studied the British command enough to know who all their big guns were.


30 posted on 03/14/2014 1:06:12 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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