Re: XXX Corps was too slow and for Ted
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Posted by Brad Sallows from Burnaby BC Canada on April 09, 2021 at 16:34:18:
In Reply to: Re: XXX Corps was too slow and for Ted posted by Jules Deschenes on April 08, 2021 at 18:32:13:
1) One tactical mistake isn't sufficient to malign Currie's military expertise, nor is one
weakness of character sufficient to malign a reputation.
2) Sending armour unsupported, or by night, up the highway through the polder from Nijmegen to
Arnhem would've been suicide, unless you think miring tanks in mushy ground at the side of the
road provides a nice stable firing platform to shoot in the infantry.
3) By the time of the Falaise battle, the Canadians were experienced. So were the Germans, and if
the Germans up to that point had been difficult opponents, imagine how motivated they were to keep
that gap open. People can whine all they like about the "slow" progress from the beaches north of
Caen to Falaise, but the simple fact remains that while the British and Canadians may not have
advanced very quickly against the cream of the German army, the cream of the German army didn't
make much progress the other way.
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