| Post; Goodwood
The initial plan was Lt Gen Dempsey's but Monty bought into it, ovesaw it, sold it to Ike and Churchill and changed some of the directives.There is little to mitigate Monty's involvement and actually doing so sounds more like Monty himself.As the commander of the Allied forces in France, Monty conducted a campaign that was ultimately successful, even beating its own deadlines for clearing France of the German Army.
The big however in this is that the forces under the British command(Monty)failed signally in several offences and while they tied down German forces, the plans were to do more than wasaccomplished. There is no question that Monty sold Goodwood as a plan to break out ti Ike and in paricular the Air Chiefs. The resulting furor among the Allied commanders demonstrstes just what the plan was meant to do, not what Monty claimed. Best JWC |