Speaking as a true blue Yank, I have never thought that the British did any less than the Americans in the Normandy campaign, or that the Americans would have done any better around Caen. I do however believe that if the Americans had held the North/East beaches, we would not have heard Monty telling people that the strategy was for the Americans to hold the German armor, while the British broke out to the west. No, in that case, the British would be pulling the American chestnuts from the fire again.