Re: Allies At War doc.
- From: Michael Emrys <emrys@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 05:28:52 -0500
in article AO2dne8jFr3NY7XZRVny2A@xxxxxxxxxxxx, Andrew Clark at
aclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 3/28/06 1:14 AM:
It's notable that 12th AG and 21st AG both shared LOC through Antwerp, and
that 9th US Army shared 21st AG LOC without too much trouble. In Italy, too,
US and Commonwealth corp also shared LOC.
You may have missed my point. Try to envision this: the army groups are
arrayed thusly going from north to south: 12th., 6th., 21st. The 12th. draws
supplies from Antwerp. The 6th. from Marseilles with its convoys constantly
crossing the tail of the 21st. The convoys for the 21st. cross the tails of
the 12th. and 6th.
Alternately, both the 12th. and the 6th. draw from Antwerp and the 21st.
draws from Marseilles. This has the virtue of simpler traffic streams on
land, but now shipping from the UK must travel around the Breton Peninnsula,
go down the Atlantic coasts of France, Spain, and Portugal, pass the Straits
of Gibraltar to enter the Mediterranean, and finally dock in Marseilles. I
haven't measured that out on the map, but if it turns out to be six times as
far as the run across the North Sea, I won't be surprised.
I think the arrangement of the army groups as it ultimately worked out,
whatever its faults, was probably as good a compromise as anyone was going
to come up with.
Michael
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