D-Day Beaches Switched

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.

would the Brits move as fast as Patton did though? Montgomery was a fine general, but given more to carefully planned set-piece battles than Patton's 'seat of the pants' hard charging. While the Yanks would undoubtedly have a hard slog against the German armor, I doubt that the Brits would move as rapidly... thus, both armies would be moving slower than in OTL...
 
Doubt that the possible question of the division of Germany had the slightest bearing on the military plans for Overlord. Never ever heard of such.

IIRC, there's a chapter about this in "The Longest Day".... it sounded as if it was all about American isolationism kicking in a bit... the US was antsy about being tied down in Central Europe for years on end, and wanted to be in the north so they could pull out faster and easier...
 
given as how you ran into about three guys and a dog at Utah
Does PETA know about this?:D:D
Er... the US gets Juno and Sword, the Brits get Utah and Gold, and the Canucks get Omaha. :p

...Wait... Did I just assign us the shit beach? Crap.
You did.:eek::eek: No worries, Monty wouldn't go for it, he wouldn't trust Canadians to be able to cope.:mad:

Presuming it's POD'd back far enough, tho, IMO you get 1 biggie: Patton clears the Scheldt before the end of July '44, & Market Garden isn't needed, 'cause the Allie are in Berlin before December.
 
Last edited:
Top