[PanzerBob]

Granted there was some problem there, and they didn't perform as would have been preferred. It is possible that these men were not trained to standard as other units were. Still given the AAR's report of casualties taken this unit still didn't break and run as claimed earlier in the other post. Also this does not prove that US training prior to D-Day did not make GI's better soldiers than their earlier brothers in arms, which campaigned into North Africa.

There also should be credit given to the German defence regardless whether they were elites. There were defending on territory well known to them and they made use of that terrain to their advantage.

Prosit!