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B.H LIDDELL HARTS ANALYSIS

At that time, as the captured records reveal, the Germans had barely 100

tanks available for action on the whole Western Front, against more than

2,000 in the Allies’ spearheads. The Germans had only 570 serviceable

aircraft to support them, whereas the British and American aircraft then

operating in the West totalled over 14,000. Thus the Allies had an effective

superiority of 20 to 1 in tanks and 25 to 1 in aircraft.

But just as complete victory appeared within easy reach, the Allies’

onrush petered out. During the next two weeks, up to September 17, they

made very little further progress.

The British spearhead, after a pause to ‘refit, refuel, and rest’, resumed its

advance on the 7th, and soon secured a crossing over the Albert Canal, east of

Antwerp. But in the days that followed it only pushed eighteen miles farther

— to the Meuse-Escaut Canal. That short stretch of swampy heath country

was interspersed with small streams, and the German parachutists, fighting

with desperate courage, put up a resistance out of all proportion to their slight

numbers.