Pls enlighten me, I can't figure out which battle is this.
2006-12-01 18:15:50 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
your looking for the invasion of Sicily. where Patton wanted to take Palermo from the get go. and Monty wanted to take Messina but Monty got to Eisenhower first. and got his plan while the Americans were supposed to protect the Brits flanks. but Patton took Palermo any way along with Messina lol. but these two both had big and i mean big egos. they clashed the entire war like this. but Patton was well respected by the Germans that's how he was able to sell the decoy force before d-day.
2006-12-01 19:28:19 · answer #1 · answered by ryan s 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
First they fought hard after D Day during the liberation of France because Patton thought Monty was a coward and did not attack sufficiently the Germans and then they fought about the strategy of invading Germany, Monty winning over Patton with his disastrous strategy to attack by the North (the Netherlands) in an operation called Market Garden which was one of the most costly battles of WW2 in Western Europe. It is during this operation that the Allies saw the first German fighter jets and they were terrified.
2006-12-01 18:53:33 · answer #2 · answered by Mimi 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This was actually an ongoing conflict. The frution to the situation came when Patton's forces were moving in on Berlin. Monty had a nice tidy arrangement similar to a proper tea party as to who should arrive first and the proper order of protocol for arrival. Patton was never one to hold a teacup politely with a properly raised finger. He saw a hole in the German defenses and punched the daylights out of it without permission and got the job done. Monty promptly whined about being upstaged, and Patton was removed from command.
2006-12-01 18:37:19 · answer #3 · answered by otterkins2 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
monty had already defeated rommel in north africa and headed for italy with his desert rats at the head,patton being the pig headed thing that he was wanted to change the way thing were going by going forward to quickly which caused a lot more casualties than it should have,there was very little in it except that monty lost only a few in comparison to patton,
2006-12-01 18:55:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the italian invasion, but there was competetion between both throughout the war
2006-12-01 18:23:37 · answer #5 · answered by waltmcnameeiii 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋