SaturnV …….. few photographs of SS panzer division tanks were shown to General Browning just before Market Garden, and Browning dismissed them. ………….
The following is from “The Devils Birthday” by Geoffrey Powell, p.44:
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………. But Browning, when [the 25 year old intelligence officer] showed him the photographs of the tanks [near the drop and landing zones of the 1st Airborne Division], played down the evidence and arranged for the intelligence officer to be sent on sick leave on the grounds of nervous exhaustion.”. …….. “In no way an emotional individual, in post-war years he [the intelligence officer] established a high reputation in a very senior post in the United Nations.” …….
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One of the tasks of leadership is the keep the show (whether military or commercial) on the road. The means of doing that are sometimes somewhat underhand. Sometimes they are later considered to be “justified”, sometimes not.
In the case of Market Garden, 1 in 7 died (1,400 in 10,000). Amongst 747 passengers, the 1.063 deaths JBS quotes amounts to something like 1 in about 1,300,000 souls on board, (1063 in about 1,500,000,000 S.O.B., I’m guessing). In comparison, the chances of being killed in a road accident in the USA in a single year are more than 200 times higher (about 1 in 6,250). Maybe we should be agitating about that too. But not here.