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Why Patton Had to Save D-Day From Montgomery’s Disaster

On June 6th, 1944, British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery promised Supreme Commander Eisenhower that he would capture the critical road junction of Caen on D-Day itself—opening the path for Allied breakout from the Normandy beaches. Six weeks later, Caen was still in German hands while American soldiers died by the thousands in the Norman hedgerows, trapped in the bocage because Montgomery's sector remained stalled. Drawing on Montgomery's own pre-invasion planning documents, Eisenhower's diary, Bradley's memoirs, Patton's correspondence, and post-war interrogations of German generals who fought at Caen, this documentary reveals how Montgomery's broken D-Day promise nearly destroyed Operation Overlord—and how George S. Patton's Third Army breakout in late July finally delivered what Montgomery had failed to accomplish for six weeks. The story culminates in August 1944 when Patton advanced 250 miles across France in three weeks while Montgomery claimed credit for "holding German armor in place"—a post-war narrative contradicted by his own written orders and German testimony confirming they concentrated panzers at Caen because Montgomery kept attacking, not because they were being deceived.