If operation shingle was done correctly
If operation shingle was done correctly
“You’re going to destroy the best damn division in the United States Army”
Take a stubborn narcissist desperate to prove himself to be the military genius the people who put him in charge think he is, and put him in command of a man who, while being a decent man, lacks the drive or ruthlessness to be an effective frontline officer. Then massively understaff the operation.
Operation Dragoon is hilarious because of how incredibly well it went that no one remembers it anymore
It's still always one of those fun WIs if 6th AG crossed the Rhine.
This would require less petty bitch behavior on the part of Eisenhower and Bradley, as well as putting us in a world where WWII dads might show the French any respect at all. Impossible timeline, tbh.