And the landing is under overall command of Monty untill Eisenhower goes to normandy, which won't happen untill there's more room in the bridgehead.
Patton would have faced the same congestions on the beaches etc as Bradley would have.
Monty's plan for the inmediate post-landing was aggressive enough without Patton around. Because of the much higher tide then usual, the beaches were smaller leaving the Allies with much traffic congestion and unable to land the armoured brigades Monty wanted to use to strike inland.
The Allies did try to take Caen on the first day, but couldn't do that without more armour.
Nytram01;
Which one by Carlo D'Este is that? I have 'Decision in Normandy' by him and can't remember reading that in it.
IIRC he does mention some minor differences between Monty and Bradley (Bradley didn't like Monty) but not enough to make a true difference during Overlord.
A better idea IMHO would be to drop Leigh-Mallory. He didn't allow the 1th Airborne division to be dropped towards Caen to break the shell of German troops corsetting the landing.
Or have the Naval part of the landing agree with a cease-fire for several hours (which they didn't out of fear for the absent Luftwaffe) so the transport aircraft don't get shot down.
The wiki confirms that:
In January 1944, Maj. Gen.
Roy Urquhart was given command of the division. On
D-Day, 1st Airborne remained in reserve, while
British 6th Airborne Division made the airborne drops into
France. During the early stages of the fighting in Normandy it was planned to drop the division south of the city of
Caen in support of
Operation Perch, however the operation was vetoed by the air force as being too risky for the men of the division as well as the pilots who would fly them in.
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