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To: Mollypitcher1

Montgomery should have also cleared the islands leading into Antwerp instead of launching Market Garden. Opening that port would have served the Allies a lot more. You are absolutely correct on North AFrica. Sending Rommel’s supplies to the bottom of the sea and bombing the long lonely road through the desert was what doomed Rommel.


152 posted on 02/25/2016 8:15:37 PM PST by gusty
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To: gusty

Agreed. And Market Garden was a disaster that could have been avoided if Eisenhower had listened to Patton who opposed it. But Eisenhower always sided with Montgomery.


156 posted on 02/25/2016 8:50:28 PM PST by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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