[colorado tanker]

It was folly to try this without enough gas to get to the Meuse, much less Antwerp.

It would have been a better use of Skorzeny's infiltrators to have them drive the road net looking for First Army HQ and its supply dumps. A study of a road map would lead to some pretty good guesses where the main supply dump might be.

[AppyPappy]

The whole thing would have been better aimed at the Soviets but Hitler was convinced that the US was weak-willed and would throw in the towel if pressed.