How did he keep getting away with it?

>>1714387

Keep getting away with what?

>>1714387
American bailouts

>>1714387

By attentionwhoring really hard. The weary Brits, in need of a wartime hero, fell for it.

>>1714387
He was fairly good, competent but not the best.

He was excellent with his men, poor at communication with his superiors and the Americans. Thus was thrown under a bus in the memoirs after the war.

His strengths lay in organisation and logistics, and set piece battles. Market garden is a sad blight on him but it was a throw of the dice by an empire trying to prove it was relevant to the fight.


Now Bill Slim on the other hand, there was a fighter.

American propaganda at its finest here.

The performance of American troops through North Africa was lamentable; Monty kept things together enough for the Americans to toughen up enough for Sicily.

>>1714845
Actually Monty and Eisenhower got on much better than other English-American partnerships. Except perhaps of the Churchill-Roosevelt broship.

>>1714845
>He was fairly good, competent but not the best.

merely better than any other allied general in western europe.

seriously, people point to market garden as a grand failure, but it was a gamble that could have ended the war much sooner and while losses were heavy for the paratroops it wasnt nearly as heavy a loss as some seem to make out.

he did well in normandy, where he held overall command until after the breakout, he did well in north africa, he did well in italy, and he did extremely well in the battle of the bulge, albeit less well in the after battle press conference

>>1715331

Not him, but I would argue Devers was better, albeit was only employed in a much more limited fashion.

>>1715331
Sometime all you need in an army, someone reliable. Who knows the limits of his men and material.

That slow steady grind down wins wars.

>>1714845
We're probably the only two people on this board who know who the Viscount Slim is. Shame.

>>1717837
>>1714845
>Now Bill Slim on the other hand, there was a fighter.
>autist sperg who hates his own troops because they are brown.

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>>1717847
I mean at least one Corporal loved him but he must be an autist because someone on 4chan said so.

>>1714879
Pretty much this. Before patton even showed up america had a hard time pusing east to meet the brits. Monty managed to keep a line and even push the germans from the defence they had set up in tripoli.
It was only when the germans were pushed back to tunisia that the americans properly managed to push farther in. Maybe it had to do with the actual development of proper tanks like the m3 lee and sherman tanks.

Anyone with a small knowledge of the african campaign knows that it was americas first time at a real war scince ww1 and Montgomery was the post that helped america stay up