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Judge said:
With Field Marshal Montgomery trying to steal everyone's thunder. Particularly George Patton's.

The Field Marshal's attitude eventually caught up with him, getting on Eisenhower's bad side and then doubling down complaining to both Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. Which turned out to be a VERY bad idea.
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Patton did not like Guy who was a better planner. See battle for dutch port. Patton was not happy tried to claim credit.
 
Ronald Zeeman said:
Patton did not like Guy who was a better planner. See battle for dutch port. Patton was not happy tried to claim credit.
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Patton's ego was something else. Much like Montgomery. He had incredible fortitude and knew the value of remaining always on the offensive. However, he'd probably had scoffed at the very nature of planning, even though it's a military necessity relative to intelligence and logistics.

Ironic to consider that Montgomery's failed "Operation Market Garden" was a classic case of going on the offensive over very bad intelligence. It was last nail to Monty's coffin as far as the allies were concerned.

Although Patton got his fourth star as a full general, he was eventually stripped of his administrative duties as an occupier of Germany and reduced to overseeing a group of soldiers merely archiving data for the Army. Only months later to die from injuries in an auto accident.
 
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Guy was a modest man, got promoted to chief of forces. never beat his own drum. The more I learn about him the more impressed I get, After all no skin, my parents moved here after war.
 
Ronald Zeeman said:
Guy was a modest man, got promoted to chief of forces. never beat his own drum. The more I learn about him the more impressed I get, After all no skin, my parents moved here after war.
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Reminds me of another general. Known as the "G.I General"- Omar Bradley.

Who was everything Patton wasn't, but that Patton should have been as a great leader.
 
Bottom line china has half their stated population ten more years real issue with keeping their industry going. Russia
going down tube fast, USA like Roman empire collapsing. Wait a year or two.
 
Judge said:
Ironic to consider that Montgomery's failed "Operation Market Garden" was a classic case of going on the offensive over very bad intelligence. It was last nail to Monty's coffin as far as the allies were concerned.
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He didn't exactly endear himself to the Aussies either and our successes in Egypt and Africa were in spite of him rather than because of him. He especially hated being upstaged by a bunch of colonials and didn't like our Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Morshead one bit.

Morshead was a hero to everyone that followed him and his men called him Ming The Merciless.

Leslie Morshead - Wikipedia
 
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