On 24 December Bradley gave a press briefing in which he announced that he had foreseen the possibility of the enemy's attack in the Ardennes six weeks before the battle, and that for this reason had sited no American dumps of ammunition or petrol east of the Meuse!

wrote Nigel Hamilton in his book on Monty, The Battles of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery.

If that was true that was the most intuitive calculation that Bradley made in the whole of World War II, because as Karl-Heinz Frieser, of Hitler’s decision to launch the Battle of the Bulge, wrote, in his book The Blitzkrieg Legend:

The plan was not based on any rational, general staff — style calculations, but was only an irrational act of despair on the part of Hitler. How could anyone plan an offensive with such an ambitious objective as the Port of Antwerp if fuel for some Panzer units was available only for the first sixty kilometers? That fuel was barely enough to reach the enemy fuel dumps after whose seizure the advance was to be continued — freshly gassed up. Such a "blitzkrieg without gasoline" is bound to appear just about absurd in retrospect.

No credit was given in Bradley’s account of how he saved the Allies during the Battle of the Bulge, of one of the, apparently, many men he hated with a passion, General JCH Lee – Jesus Christ Himself. But I think he should have. Let me tell you why.

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