l Patton in command of the Third Army (the invented US Army Group). It was a painful blow for Patton that was given an unreal existence through reports from a fake headquarters opposite Pas-de-Calais. General Patton drove the Germans out of Sicily, he was the American equivalent of Montgomery. The Germans would probably assume that Eisenhower had given the most important task of the Third Army to Patton.
             General Omar Bradley was given command of the American First Army, which was to attack in Normandy. He could not be compared with extravagant Patton, in addition, he was younger than Patton and had served under him recently on the Sicily campaign. When the invasion began, the Germans should logically assumed that Bradley's First Army was only making a phony attack in Normandy while Patton
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