Ok,Ok, Ike was Supreme Commander- picked because he was a great man at getting along with the Limeys to get D-Day underway- And the "dummy Army" under Patton that tricked the Krauts (at least Hitler) into thinking that the Pas De Calais was the site of the invasion- not Normandy. But his judgement was flawed twice after D-Day: (1) approving Monty's hair brained plan: "Market Garden"- doomed to fail, almost impossible to co-ordinate airborne, ground and tanker units to a synchronized battle plan- the lack of common radio signals, plus an almost criminal lack of attention to the intel the Dutch underground was sending the Allies-and (2) Ignoring the intel that was out there in the open in Dec 1944- about the pending "Battle Of The Bulge", where, just as with Pearl Harbor, we got caught with our pants down again, this time by the Krauts--
By the by, Patton sensed both those grand Fubars way ahead of Bradley, Clark, Monty et al. Live and learn. RWTF
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