Why didn't the Allies finish off the Germans before the Batt

The text gives less than a page to the subject and our class spent only a few minutes discussing it but June 6, 1944 (D-Day) was the largest amphibious landing in history and a could have been the final blow to the German army. So why then, with a greater number of ground troops and superior firepower, didn’t the Allies finish off the Germans following the D-Day assault and end the war before the Battle of the Bulge?

On D-Day and D-Day +1 the Allies landed 150,000 troops on the beaches of Normandy. In the following months the number of troops would build up to one million. In addition to the advantage in the size of ground forces the allies had more tanks (3.9:1), artillery (1.5:1), and planes (7.4:1). This was more than enough firepower to do the job and the Allies had a plan.

The Allies were slowly encircling the Germans in what they called the Falaise Pocket and the only escape was through the Falaise Gap (approximately 15 miles wide) and even that gap was about to be closed. Artillery was in place, large 155 MM guns call

These troops then supported the German lines, a continuous defensive front extending for a hundred miles. These forces would also make up more than half, fifteen of the twenty-five divisions that attacked through Ardennes in the German counteroffensive later called the Battle of the Bulge.

Everything was set; the artillery spotters were in the hills and awaiting the first Germans to enter the valley. Everything was quiet until a German staff car drove out of the forest and into the town of Chambois. Shortly after three German horse drawn supply Wagons exited Chambois and headed in the other direction. The spotters requested a fire mission, mainly to establish the distance, range, and timing. These shells would be the first in a weeklong assault, as thousands of Germans in cars, trucks, and horse drawn wagons would stream eastward through the forest.

The Americans and French were in a line, not quite solid yet, that extended fifty miles closing in on the pocket. From the northwest the British army was pushing the Germans into the pocket. From the northeast the Poles were heading into the valley. The Canadians too were on their way. I was through all these troops and artillery that over one hundred thousand German troops would have to pass.

Allied and German estimates of the dead were somewhere between six thousand and ten thousand. But total estimates between the American, British, and Canadians differ on dead and prisoners of war. If we accept the highest estimates of ten thousand dead and fifty thousand pr

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