[ewing]

I don't know if even Rommell could/would have marched his boys a 100 miles in heavy snow per day..

[Riley]

I don't know if even Rommell could/would have marched his boys a 100 miles in heavy snow per day..

Perhaps not, but he ably demonstrated maneuver warfare in the French campaign in 1940.

[Jumper]

Rommell had the opportunity to fight in the Desert and was outstanding given the lack of morale, logistics and Italian's.... Given the task of buidling the Atlantic Wall in which he had no belief, he put into place formidable defenses. I've walked Normandy.