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As explained earlier:

Page 41, you've pulled quotes from it before.

The lines I've quoted were available by 6 September - see Admin History 21st Army Group. Take care not to confuse US Army history with that of the Allied campaign.

The map is missing some key rail lines eg Caen to Argentan Dieppe and Rouen to Brussels which are significant to understanding the flow of supplies from Mulberries, Rouen and Le Havre.

I'd have to check the details, but have read that on the day that Shingle was launched, Butcher's diary included something along the lines that Eisenhower should be credited with the design of this great success. However this was not included in the published version. :)

No, that's US lines only.

In 1940? Probably not. Local supply was developed because of the shipping issue.

End result of a successful Market Garden is a British Corps over the Rhine, and another between the Maas and the Rhine. The threat is either or both attacking along the Rhine towards the Ruhr, Germany's main industrial area. Key questions are: What is the German response? The sensible one is an...

Algiers is 3000km from El Alamein. It's only because of subsequent developments that they're seen as a single campaign; Tripoli was supposed to be taken from the west, not Tunis by the 11th Hussars. In the desert it was almost impossible to cut off a motorised force - you've already posted...

Not quite - the initial battles in Egypt produced less than 30% of Italian casualties

6th Guards Tank Brigade would disagree, reaching Lubeck at the end of the war in their Churchills.

The British were thinking about structure/equipment earlier - eg Oct '43 from 7th Armoured Division and asking for a 4th "Armoured" regiment that could be attached to the lorried infantry brigade, which became standard practice. IIRC 11th Armoured's base structure was two brigades 1:3 and 3:1...

IIRC US is 3:3 in battalions of armour:infantry, UK is 4:4 (although most of the infantry was in lorries, not half-tracks)?

Tanks imply fighting another European war.

Locked in a stalemate on the Mareth line https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mareth_Line

Totally unrealistic - land them in the Wash to cause panic on the British mainland, starting from the Frisian islands. ;)

Import crisis in 1943 - not really relevant. Yes, the description of what the British did on logistics, which I have quoted from. My point is that the British were better placed than the US. The US position is described in extensive detail in Ruppenthal and shows them in a worse position. You...

Exact quote and source please. Just linking to a chapter of official histories is not a response, it's spam. What exactly do you disagree on? The details I referenced are from Atkinson's The Day of Battle p194-5 sourced to an interview with Lemnitzer in 1947. I'm not arguing that they were...

Nobody is arguing that British logistics were perfect. However they were more effective than the US in the NW Europe campaign, especially in the pursuit phase. Please provide evidence if you want to argue otherwise. Once you get past 10 September then the German units that opposed the OTL...