The battle for Caen was a bloody victory for the Common Wealth. Churchill worried about the WW1 type stalemate as the Germans held off the British and the Canadians for nearly 2 months.
The allies lost > 50 thousand men, not including the airmen lost and thousands of AFV’s destroyed. Montgomery sent in the tanks row by row one after the other, which often made them sitting ducks for the Germans who had the high ground.
Using Tiger and Panther tanks and 88 guns the Germans could destroy the allied tanks at a greater distance than the allied could destroy a German tank or 88. In fact just about any German tank could outrange the allies except for the Sherman Firefly which was in short supply at the time.
Could this 2 month long allied stalemate have been avoided?
The allies lost > 50 thousand men, not including the airmen lost and thousands of AFV’s destroyed. Montgomery sent in the tanks row by row one after the other, which often made them sitting ducks for the Germans who had the high ground.
Using Tiger and Panther tanks and 88 guns the Germans could destroy the allied tanks at a greater distance than the allied could destroy a German tank or 88. In fact just about any German tank could outrange the allies except for the Sherman Firefly which was in short supply at the time.
Could this 2 month long allied stalemate have been avoided?