Field Marshall Montgomery Lord Taylor Interview. this interview took place sometime in the 1960's.
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- Field Marshall Montgomery Lord Taylor Interview. this interview took place sometime in the 1960's.
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Fascinating, the right man for the right time.
The finest army in the world from mid 1942 onwards was the British under Montgomery. From Alem el Halfa it moved right up into Denmark, through nine countries, and not once suffered a reverse taking all in its path. Over 90% of German armour in the west was destroyed by the British. Montgomery, in command of all ground forces, had to give the US armies an infantry role in Normandy as they were not equipped to engage massed German SS armour.
*Montgomery* stopped the Germans in every event they attacked him:
▪ August 1942 - Alem el Halfa; October 1942 - El Alamein;
▪ March 1943 - Medenine;
▪ June 1944 - Normandy;
▪ Sept/Oct 1944 - The Netherlands;
▪ December 1944 - Battle of the Bulge;
*A list of Montgomery’s victories in WW2:*
▪ Battle of Alam Halfa;
▪ Second Battle of El Alamein;
▪ Battle of El Agheila;
▪ Battle of Medenine;
▪ Battle of the Mareth Line;
▪ Battle of Wadi Akarit;
▪ Allied invasion of Sicily;
▪ Operation Overlord - the largest amphibious invasion in history;
▪ Market Garden - a 60 mile salient created into German territory;
▪ Battle of the Bulge - while taking control of two shambolic US armies;
▪ Operation Veritable;
▪ Operation Plunder.
*Montgomery not once had a reverse.*
*Not on one occasion were ground armies, British, US or others, under Monty's command pushed back into a retreat by the Germans.* Monty's 8th Army advanced the fastest of any army in WW2. From El Alamein to El Agheila from the 4th to 23rd November 1942, 1,300 km in just 17 days. After fighting a major exhausting battle at El Alemein through half a million mines. This was an Incredible feat, unparalleled in WW2. With El Alamein costing just 13,500 casualties.
The US Army were a shambles in 1944/45 retreating in the Ardennes. The Americans didn't perform well at all east of Aachen, then the Hurtgen Forest defeat with 33,000 casualties and Patton's Lorraine crawl of 10 miles in three months at Metz with over 50,000 casualties, with his Lorraine campaign being a failure. Then Montgomery had to be put in command of the shambolic US First and Ninth armies saving them from annihilation, aided by the British 21st Army Group, just to get back to the start line in the Ardennes, with nearly 100,000 US casualties.
Hodges, head of the US First army, fled from Spa to near Liege on the 18th, despite the Germans never getting anywhere near to Spa. Hodges did not even wait for the Germans to approach Spa. He had already fled long before the Germans were stopped. The Germans took 20,000 US POWs in the Battle of the Bulge in Dec 1944. No other allied country had that many prisoners taken in the 1944-45 timeframe.
The USA retreat at the Bulge, again, was the only allied army to be pushed back into a retreat in the 1944-45 timeframe. Montgomery was effectively in charge of the Bulge having to take control of the US First and Ninth armies. Coningham of the RAF was put in command of USAAF elements. The US Third Army constantly stalled after coming up from the south. The Ninth stayed under Monty's control until the end of the war just about. The US armies were losing men at unsustainable rates due to poor generalship.
Normandy was planned and commanded by the British, with Montgomery involved in planning, with also Montgomery leading *all* ground forces, which was a great success coming in ahead of schedule and with less casualties than predicted. The Royal Navy was in command of all naval forces and the RAF all air forces. The German armour in the west was wiped out by primarily the British - the US forces were impotent against massed panzers. Monty assessed the US armies (he was in charge of them) giving them a supporting infantry role, as they were just not equipped, or experienced, to fight concentrated tank v tank battles. On 3 Sept 1944 when Eisenhower took over overall allied command of ground forces everything went at a snail's pace. The fastest advance of any western army in Autumn/early 1945 was the 60 mile thrust by the British XXX Corps to the Rhine at Arnhem.
*You need to give respect where it is due.*
Get your Hindenberg head wound looked at.--Monty got run off the continent at Dunkirk,Got out commanded TOTALY in Sicily sat in Italy and absolutely stuck at CAEN, then didn't show up in Arnhem for his own operation petting his canaries and bunnies back at his caravan as 34,400 troops go into the Netherlands and 17,000 come out and he wasn't around to share that fate.
Read the Full Monty - your mentioned in it johnny.Britain had a chance to be relevant and help the French beat the Germans in 1940. She failed utterly and miserably. From that point onward, whatever Britain does and regardless of what happens to her - the war ends the same way - with Germany crushed by the USSR and the US (in that order).
@@bigwoody4704
Rambo, a quiz.
Name the British general who had o take command of two shambolic US armies in the German Bulge attack who saved them from annihilation?
20 points for the correct answer.
@@johnburns4017 The UK and its defunct empire was only a satellite of the United States.
Montgomery only won due to American support.
!968? He made reference to student unrest in France
It must have been after January 20th of 1970 as he refers to a discussion he had with Nixon re the Vietnam war
Monty is being, at best, disingenuous here. As a matter of fact, like for like, a British soldier's chances of surviving the 141 days of the Somme in 1916 were a little higher than surviving the 85 days of the Normandy campaign under Monty in 1944.
Montgomery and Mountbatten....two over-rated military men. Monty was El alemein (with overwhelming superiority) and nothing more...but blunders. We still awaiting to find out what Mountbatten acheived!
Absolute rubbish
So funny Brexiteers always referring to the past....😅 who's next Lawrence from Arabia. Is the present so depressing?
It's called history, most learn from it.😋
@@DaveL83 Brexiteers hav not learned anything....instead they like daydreaming form ancient times...
@@minimax9452 Why are the left never happy unless they have something to moan about.
@@minimax9452 you hurt my feelings but we left the EU. Who's reminiscing about the past?
Show some respect. If it was not him or patton or zukhov or konev and many others, then the nazis would rule the whole europe and soon all the world.
Montgomery was a bigger hindrance to the allied war effort than the Germans.
What a ridiculous comment
That’s the narrative these days. It’s sad. Americans hardly got involved willingly did they? So they have to blame those that did. Shame, was one of the best team efforts in military history and now we all have to fight about it.
Absolute garbage
@@GhostRider-on6bz The US chose to declare war on Germany on 24 March 1933.