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The Brits don't have any really great shakes going for them either.
The most famous Brit general of the 20th century -- Montgomery-- was borderline incompetent. None of his plans ever worked even remotely as advertised. Crap, he planned the raid of Dieppe. In fact he was part of the ORIGINAL planning group but that raid was abandoned and when the project was revived , Montogomery urged that it be cancelled as standing no hope of success as all hope of surprise, which was essential to the operation had been lost. Indeed Lieut.-General H. G. D. Crerar, G.O.C. 1st Canadian Corps, took the place of Montgomery who thereafter took no part in the operation and was in fact in North Africa when the raid took place. But hey the facts never got in the way of your rants before so why stop now. Keith What was the difference between what Montgomery planned originally amd what was executed? Of course Montgomery's incidental connection to the Dieppe raid pales when compared to his other failures like not getting his D-Day onbjectives, failing to clear the approaches to Antwerp and Market-Garden. Walt |
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