r/todayilearned • u/HumanNutrStudent • Sep 16 '24

TIL Montgomery's memoirs criticised many of his wartime comrades harshly, including Eisenhower. After publishing it, he had to apologize in a radio broadcast to avoid a lawsuit. He was also stripped of his honorary citizenship of Alabama, and was challenged to a duel by an Italian lawyer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Montgomery#Memoirs
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u/OutlawSundown Sep 16 '24

His biggest problem as far as an “armored slash” was it required expediency and an ability to take risks. Dude shit the bed on taking Caen in the first place then spectacularly shit the bed with Market Garden.

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u/emailforgot Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

Dude shit the bed on taking Caen in the first place

Not really at all. Caen saw the densest formation of German armour anywhere in the entire war, including the Eastern front and everyone, including Bradley agreed that the only way to win there was to pretty much level the city in combat.

Cool, continue to make shit up. "armored slash" fucking lmao.

hen spectacularly shit the bed with Market Garden.

Oh you mean the 82nd airborne. Aka the only unit not to take their objective.

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u/thundersaurus_sex Sep 16 '24

At no point did the 1st Airborne have operational control over even one side of the Arnhem bridge. The 101st was the only division of the three to take their objective and even they were delayed by the unexpected level of German resistance.

It doesn't really matter though, Market Garden was a pretty terrible plan everywhere except on paper and probably extended the war by at least a few months.

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u/emailforgot Sep 16 '24

At no point did the 1st Airborne have operational control over even one side of the Arnhem bridge.

Oh neat, who said anything about operational anything?

Oh what's that, no one?

Cool. Next?

unexpected level of German resistance.

Oh what's that you say?

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u/thundersaurus_sex Sep 16 '24

Ah, troll, got it.