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Retired general: war could have ended sooner
Lt Gen Guy Simonds says Allied push on the Channel ports delayed the end of WWII. He argues German forces were vulnerable after Normandy and that concentrating on Calais and Boulogne could have toppled them earlier, possibly by Christmas 1944, while noting SHAEF overrulings and weather constraints.
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Toronto
France
Guy Simonds
1St
Scheldt
Antwerp
Normandy
15Th Army Group
Bag
London
L. F. Ellis
Ruhr
Ardennes
Simonds
Channel
Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force
SHAEF
Calais
Boulogne
English Channel
Belgium
The
Walcheren Island
North Sea
Netherlands
Allied
Bomber Command
Dwight Eisenhower
Europe
Falaise