>>13462433 (dubs chek't)
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A Personal Battle
The battle between Patton and Montgomery began almost immediately. When a British attack below Catania faltered, Montgomery unilaterally decided to maneuver his XXX Corps around the base of Mount Etna and assault Messina from the west. Monty took over Highway 124, which Lt. Gen. Omar Bradley’s II Corps was using for its push north. The moved forced the American 45th Division back to the beach to reposition itself.
Patton balked at accepting a support role and flew to Tunis to confront his superiors. “I am here to ask you to take the wraps off me and change your orders to read, `The Seventh Army will drive rapidly to the northwest and north and capture Palermo.'” He got his way.
In the breakneck campaign that followed, Patton’s 2nd Armored and 3rd Infantry divisions covered more than 100 miles in four days, encountering only token resistance. When Patton’s lead units arrived in Palermo, the Germans were gone. To the gloating Patton, his prowess for modern mobile warfare had been demonstrated to the world.
After Palermo, Patton’s Seventh Army operated in the north as the equal of the Eighth Army. Patton pushed toward Messina, leapfrogging ahead of stiff German resistance with three amphibious “end runs,” while Montgomery’s Eighth Army slugged it out with the Germans up the east coast road.
“This is a horse race in which the prestige of the U.S. Army is at stake,” Patton said. “We must take Messina before the British.”
While Patton and Montgomery plotted to out maneuver each other, the German Army was pulling off its own version of Dunkirk. Over a period of five nights, Kesselring secretly evacuated the remnants of his army – 40,000 Germans and 70,000 Italians – across the Straight of Messina to mainland Italy. In all their endeavors to thwart each other, the Allied commanders neglected to block the Germans’ escape route.
An American patrol entered Messina on August 17, cautiously picking its way around mines and booby traps, ready for a pitch battle with the Germans. It didn’t take the patrol long to discover the last of the Germans had escaped across the strait the night before.
Patton won the race. But allowing Kesselring’s army to escape meant the fighting to come on the beaches and mountains of mainland Italy would be some of the toughest – and costliest – of the war.
https://worldhistory.us/military-history/ww-ii-history/monty-and-patton-unfriendly-allies.php
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"crisis management"?
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