Because the WEAK CinCs Ike and Generals Bradley was too busy KISSING THE A$$ of Montgomery and letting him DICK around with BULL$HIT “Operations(Market Garden)” that WASTED TIME, MEN and MATERIALS that would/could have been better put to use by Patton. The NEXT question I have is WHY didn’t Ike know about the German Build-Up before the “Battle of the Bulge”? Was he too busy SCREWING Around in Paris? Ike was(in my opinion) much overrated!
Bradley despised Montgomery and lost his command because of it.
Correctamundo, sir...Monty was a big problem. In Ike’s defense, Churchill ( in one of his few big wartime mistakes) pushed Monty’s plans very hard, and FDR acquiesced. Ike’s hands were tied to some extent.
True he didn’t win in North Africa until he had an 8 to 1 superiority and had Ultra on his side.
You're being too hard on Eisenhower. He had to deal with a bunch of Prima Donnas in Montgomery, Patton and De Gaulle and the various allied politicians. Patton was lucky to retain his command after the slapping incidents and Eisenhower and Bradley went out on a limb insisting that Patton assume command of the Third army. Eisenhower wrote at the time
"If this thing ever gets out, they'll be howling for Patton's scalp, and that will be the end of Georgie's service in this war. I simply cannot let that happen. Patton is indispensable to the war effort – one of the guarantors of our victory."
News Flash!!! General Eisenhower wasn’t President and therefor not Commander in Chief until 1953, eight years after the war