What If William Slim as Deputy SACEUR
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If he came straight out of SE Asia, he'd be seen as an out of his depth interloper, I think - kind of the flip side of when Leese went out to India/Burma. Fairly or unfairly
If Slim had come to the command from Europe or Africa, he'd probably been a great success. Intelligent, confident enough to own up to his own mistakes and learn from them, well able to communicate effectively with a wide variety of soldiers.
From what I understand, even Stilwell thought well of Slim as a commander, and Stilwell didn't think much of anyone. I wonder how he would have dealt with difficult personalities like Patton & Montgomery.
If Slim had come to the command from Europe or Africa, he'd probably been a great success. Intelligent, confident enough to own up to his own mistakes and learn from them, well able to communicate effectively with a wide variety of soldiers.
From what I understand, even Stilwell thought well of Slim as a commander, and Stilwell didn't think much of anyone. I wonder how he would have dealt with difficult personalities like Patton & Montgomery.
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Why would they replace Tedder?
He was DDE's deputy at SHAEF; BLM was CG of 21st AG. BLM never had any sort of "deputy" role to DDE.
Tedder did very well in the post, anyway. Slim was the only successful Army commander the British had in the Far East, anyway. Who's going to replace him? Giffard? Irwin?
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He was DDE's deputy at SHAEF; BLM was CG of 21st AG. BLM never had any sort of "deputy" role to DDE.
Tedder did very well in the post, anyway. Slim was the only successful Army commander the British had in the Far East, anyway. Who's going to replace him? Giffard? Irwin?
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