Biggest swelled heads in history

I agree. Eisenhower deserved a lot of credit for how he handled it.

Henry Miller's loose talk discipline Bedell: "No one really knows about it." Ike: "I do." Can be construed, the man being alone, as, "God and I know." History shows decreasing individuality and lessening respect for an Almighty, even among men in pain.

Some denominations take polls and count noses; others interalize with swift resultant instincts.

Every five minutes, gas for Patton's tanks was diverted by IKE instead for Monty's ill-conceived dagger thrust crap.

uh huh

Not true whatsoever. The Soviets had turned the tide while the Allies were still messing around in North Africa. The Soviets eventually would have won (likely by late '45) and gone on to dominate Europe. Depending if the Soviets then go after Japan or not Japan might keep it's pacific empire, so you'd have a three super-power world, with Japan replacing China in todays world, and a much weaker US.

I do agree that the USSR did turn the tide against Germany but this is also thanks to the air drops from the Allies. Hard to say if Russia would continue its war past Germany or if beating them would be enough but without the Allies fighting in the west , the war would be that much harder plus the delay in victory would give Germany time to advance its weapons like the Tiger , Jet and its various missile systems. Russia was still lagging in the atom bomb research, Germany would certainly have a nuclear bomb before Russia and likely use it at will.

Not that easy. Too much uncertainties. Them boggled down in France was also extreme unfavourable.

The odds were in their favor. Victory was all but certain. How much that victory would cost? That was the question. A question that haunts anyone burdened with command.

The trick though was them getting that beachhead. If the soldiers couldn't get off of the beach in the first place that would've made the situation a lot harder on the allies.

Dick Winters, what did he do?

He was in the mini series “Band of brothers”. A real person.

@@juanmonge8 how was he a famous soldier before D-Day? He was a Lieutenant on D-Day.

No disrespect to Maj Winters , but he was a small fish in a huge fish tank. Multi star Generals like Monty , Bradley and of course Ike might have heard of 101 and it’s successes on D Day, but they also lost many airman not to mention officers ( Meean , hope I spelled that right). Thankfully Winters and many other airmen wrote stories of what happened on that long day. This is good so we get to know these hero’s and not just the ones in the history books.

The real heroes are the soldiers who jumped, charged and ran willingly into German fire...humanity has yet to learn the lessons of war.

dthdc4 Utah beach not omaha

I bet his father, President Teddy Roosevelt, would've been proud

I've seen his grave at Omaha Beach. Right next to him is Quentin Roosevelt, his brother, who was a pilot in WWI, who was KIA July 14, 1918 during WWI.

It appears Gen. Roosevelt had a lot to live up to

Its hollywood kitsch.

Why, thank you mr Mark Felton.

Lesson: don’t blab inside top secret knowledge publicly.

I feel a bit bad for him. Definitely his own fault, all his work rising through the ranks gone just for saying a dumb sentence. But loose lips sink ships

@@hunter70558. Plus there could have been German Spies in the Restaurant and He was Running His Mouth like a Damn Fool🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿

@@hunter70558Not me, how dumb and drunk can you be?

I’m not sure if IKE had much of a sense of humor. The chain smoking is spot on

his smile was famous and contagious. remember his remark that the only thing keeping Britain from sinking under the weight of all the war materiel were the barrage balloons. Very genial, but it was not a time or place for humor, so no, not known for that @@michelmendoza1769

The film suggests that Gen. Karl(Jimmy) Spaatz was a problem child. I recall he got really chummy with Goheringat War’s end which was very embarrassing to the U.S.Army

So many helpful lessons learned.

Rubbish. Montgomery advocated that a an allied land forces comanded, and that he would accept that commander being the US General Bradley. Given the mess that Eisenhower had made of being allied land forces commander since the 1st September, 1944, this was an entirely sensible proposal.

CRUSADE IN EUROPE DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER WILLIAM HEINEMANN LIMITED 1948 P282 ‘Knowing that his old antagonist of the desert, Rommel, was to be in charge of the defending forces, Montgomery predicted that enemy action would be characterized by constant assaults carried out with any force immediately available from division down to a battalion or even company size. He discounted the possibility that the enemy under Rommel would ever select a naturally strong defensive line and calmly and patiently go about the business of building up the greatest possible amount of force in order to launch one full-out offensive into our beach position. Montgomery’s predictions were fulfilled to the letter.’ P288 ‘Montgomery’s tactical handling of the British and Canadians on the Eastward flank and his co-ordination of these operations with those of the Americans to the westward involved the kind of work in which he excelled. He well understood the personal equation of the British soldier, and the morale of his remained high, in spite of frustrations and losses that could easily have shaken troops under a commander in whom they did not place their implicit trust.’ ARTHUR BRYANT TRIUMPH IN THE WEST 1943-46 COLLINS, ST JAMES’S PLACE, LONDON 1959 P43 “There is no doubt that Ike is all out to do all he can to maintain the best relations between British and Americans. But it is equally clear that Ike knows nothing about strategy. Bedell Smith, on the other hand, has brains but no military education in its true sense. He is certainly one of the best American officers but still falls far short when it comes to strategic outlook. With that Supreme Command set-up it is no wonder that Monty’s real high ability is not always realised. Especially so when ‘national’ spectacles pervert the perspective of the strategic landscape.” ’

He was in charge of ALL the ground forces on D-day and beyond. It was his planning. Bear in mind that this feature, like all Hollywood films is made to sell to the American public. Not necessarily that accurate.

Montgomery was put in charge of all land forces at D-day, what are you talking about?

Nah

No

Paris

Africans were the ones who helped Liberated most of France anyway and the French didn’t want them Celebrating with the rest of the Allies in Paris🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿🤦🏿

You can’t compare urban guerrilla Warfare and A Open Front like The France Campaigns

@@charles07km83 Urban guerilla warfare is considered far more difficult by anyone who has a clue about warfare.

he was referring to round trip miles, you drive to the beach eventually you have to drive home

Montgomery performed with distinction in in trying circumstances as a single division commander in France in 1940. He won in North Africa at Alam El Halfa, the Second Battle of El Alamein - which ended the war in North Africa as a contest, then right through to Tunis where the Germans suffered a defeat as big as Stalingrad. In Sicily he managed to get Patton's lunatic invasion plan dumped and coped with Patton throwing his toys out of his pram by offering him Messina. He then masterminded the Overlord land campaign - which finished ahead of schedule (D+87) and with 22% fewer than expected casualties, despite the setback of the Great Storm of June 1944 which destroyed the badly installed US Mulberry harbour, despite the Germans massing the vast bulk of their armour in front of British and Canadian forces, despite the constant badgering of glory hungry US commanders almost all of whom had zero combat experience theatrically marching around in steel helmets. Market Garden was fatally undermined by a lack of commitment by Eisenhower - particularly as he fatally dithered for a week before giving the go ahead. In the Battle of the Bulge Montgomery sorted out the entire northern half of the battle - leading to this comment from the German commander of the 5th Panzer Army, Hasso von Manteuffel: ‘The operations of the American 1st Army had developed into a series of individual holding actions. Montgomery's contribution to restoring the situation was that he turned a series of isolated actions into a coherent battle fought according to a clear and definite plan. It was his refusal to engage in premature and piecemeal counter-attacks which enabled the Americans to gather their reserves and frustrate the German attempts to extend their breakthrough’. His words. Thereafter Montgomery masterminded the only difficult Rhine crossing which succeeded in textbook fashion and then took the first and largest surrender of German territory and forces - on Luneburg Heath. Any questions?

In all fairness to Montgomery while he was an arrogant pompous ass, compared to George Armstrong Custer @ least he was an acceptably competent arrogant pompous ass. Still, as we saw during Operation Market-Garden he made plenty of costly mistakes of his own.