Post by MrLouisiana on Apr 15, 2005 23:36:40 GMT -5
I just finished reading a book on these 2. It's rather odd that Patton the cavalryman and Rommel the infantryman would arrive to the same conclusions as tank commanders. Both were excellent, both could have done better if their superiors had allowed, both earned a little enmity from their leaders. If Rommel had just been given more just a bit more reinforcements and supplies, then no strategy of Montgomery's and no amount of British bravery could have stopped Rommel at El Alamein. And if Eisenhower had given priority to Patton's 3rd Army instead of Montgomery's, the war would have been over by November, 1944. Nice might-have-beens, but we will never know the complete consequences of a German victory or Roosevelt dealing with Japan.
