The scale of Americcn logistic largesse was staggering. For example, the Germans came close to capturing the 1st Army’s warehouse that kept all of the army’s maps used for staff planning and for operational use by combat formations. There were only 1.5 million maps there.
Albert Seaton, in his seminal work on the war in the east “The Russo-German War” wrote an assessment of the Wehrmacht at the end of 1943. Given the widespread use of the small peasant pony and panje wagon for transport, Seaton concluded that by early 1944 the Wehrmacht was “one of the poorer armies in the world.”
My library doesn’t have that book, but they have “Horsemen of the Steppes,” so I requested that.
I hadn’t heard about the maps.
But I do remember that the Germans came within a hair’s breadth of getting 3 million gallons of fuel at Spa.
That could have greatly affected the course of the battle.