[alfa6]

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Cool F-O-G P.E. Will have some more pics to you later today.

Hi Manna

In hindsight one of the drawbacks of the Market Garden attack was that it diverted much needed forces from the capture of Antwerp and the clearing of the Scheldt Estuary. (sp) It is my recollection that had the forces used in M-G been instead used to take Antwerp and clear the Estuary that the supply crisis that SHAEF found itself in during the autumn of 1944 might have been signicantly mitigated.

Ah but if it had worked the Allies would have been geniueses, no.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Professional Engineer]

Howdy sir

[SAMWolf]

It is my recollection that had the forces used in M-G been instead used to take Antwerp and clear the Estuary that the supply crisis that SHAEF found itself in during the autumn of 1944 might have been signicantly mitigated.

You're correct, the Brits had captured Antwerp but it was unusable becasue they didn't clear the approaches. They also allowed the German 15th Army to escape by not cutting their escape route from South Beveland, these troops played an important part in stopping Market-Garden.

[snippy_about_it]

Hmmm. Market Garden...Monty....therein lies the problem, imho.