[colorado tanker]

IMHO Gen. Marshall doesn't get enough credit for the WWII victory, compared to the higher profile Generals like Ike, Patton, Bradley and MacArthur. Marshall wrote the playbook for victory from the first painful decision that reinforcing the Phillipines would be a waste of valuable resources to gearing the homefront to supply a much more mechanized Army to the decision to go for Europe first. Not least, Marshall had an eye for talent and advanced some junior people to very senior positions, like that talented colonel in War Plans who ended up Supreme Allied Commander.

[SAMWolf]

Marshall was an extremely capable strategic planner. You're right about him not getting he credit fo rall he did during the war. The field commanders were the ones in the News.