06-06-2007, 08:21 PM
Absolutely agree on the underestimation of the Germans, which led to a less than optimal sense of urgency and speed (see above 
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As to the narrow road, you're right, but I think that XXX could / should have risked more and pushed on from Valkenswaard to Eindhoven and Son. Also, but I have never read much on that, I never really found out why XII and VIII, which were supposed to protect XXX Corps flanks, advanced so slowly.
)As to the narrow road, you're right, but I think that XXX could / should have risked more and pushed on from Valkenswaard to Eindhoven and Son. Also, but I have never read much on that, I never really found out why XII and VIII, which were supposed to protect XXX Corps flanks, advanced so slowly.
