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Perhaps Rommel was restrained by the Fabian hand of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt. Perhaps he was not a great and daring general, after all. In any case, he frittered away a lot of his armor and more of his chances in local, uncoordinated counterattacks which merely harassed methodical General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery. Rommel got nowhere. The Allies made good progress, were fighting a winning battle...
Rommel had stopped the invaders in this area primarily because he (or Rundstedt) had guessed wrong again. They obviously thought that the Allies' first big objective would be not Cherbourg but Le Havre...
Whether he could begin it before Cherbourg was taken, or would have to wait for a big port to serve him, was another one for Rundstedt and Rommel to figure out. Yet another still to be answered: was the Normandy assault the big Allied effort-or was Eisenhower, a foxy strategist himself, planning another in the Calais area, or on the Bay of Biscay, or on the Mediterranean...
...Africa, was in command of all the Allied ground forces. Across from him was the canny, brilliant German field marshal he had met and beaten in North Africa. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the "Old Fox," was readying his forces (under Germany's Supreme Commander, Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt) to strike back again...
...this outrage he was promptly sacked, and-has recently been living in retirement. Rundstedt was unable to save Blaskowitz' career at the time; now he has clearly been strong enough to force his colleague's recall to duty...