Market-Garden White Washing History

[waldzee]

Sir Arthur Tedder & Sir Bertram Ramsay endorsed this plan of Action the armchair generals in this fora have been spitting up .....

What about that other 'armchair General' of the time who did not agree with 'generals' Ramsey and Tedder-a General called Eisenhower?

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Under Board rules,it is your responsibility to provide your evidence- not mine..

[waldzee]

Waldzee,

No historical sources on offer then? :roll:

No desire to share the results of your research in the Archives? :roll:

Too busy reading Stephen Ambrose and watching "Saving Private Ryan", I guess

Regards from your disappointed, but not surprised, trans-atlantic correspondent,

Tom

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[RichTO90]

Your problem is the underlying hatred you have for Montgomery (the old transatlantic obsession)

Sigh...what "old transatlantic obsession" would that be? A random, and possibly ignorant poster, does not an "obsession" make. On the other hand, I have had to suffer the ignorant, bleating calumnies of one of the most offensivly jingoistic posters of the perfidious Albion flavor with astonishing regularity.

The only 'position 'I've advanced Is that Market Garden should have been delayed by the length of time required to Clear the approaches to the Western Scheldt.

Sigh - again...how is that supposed to work? Mined approaches, covered by batteries on Walcheren and South Beveland, are not going to be "cleared" any faster with or without MARKET or GARDEN. There is also the rather inconvenient fact that Antwerp, after the estuary, Walcheren, and Beveland were cleared, still took nearly two months to generate significant volumes of traffic.

Reading this repeated stupidity by all and sundry while refraining from replying over the last few weeks has been signally revealing. What an extraordinary amount of time I have wasted here over the last ten years - all I can see are the same, endlessly repeated rewrites of the same insipid silliness. It is with considerable frustration and little pleasure, but some relief that I can finally declare that I am done with the lot of you and will happily leave you all to wallow in your collective miseries and very selective ignorances. With any luck robdab, glenn239, and whatever alias generalg is masquerading under will troll into this topic soon, ensuring there is icing on this shitcake too. As a very cogent Englishman once said, "a plague on both your houses!"

Not auf wiedersehen, but rather goodbye. Although Jon was forced into it, I consider I'm in good company by electing to banish myself.

[David Thompson]

A number of posts containing personal remarks about participants in this discussion were removed. This thread has taken up enough of the moderators' time with poster misconduct, and since several warnings haven't worked, it's closed.