DZ Season 064 Part 53. End the War in 44 – Only Human – JCH Lee 15 – Running on Empty – His Finest Moment.

Bradley's distaste for Lee, which he expressed frequently, was never explained. Bradley left behind two autobiographies, one co-written with Clay Blair. In neither does he mention Lee by name.

wrote Hank H Cox in his biography of General JCH Lee, The General Who Wore Six Stars. Without naming names Bradley had praised to the heavens what Lee had accomplished in the Battle of the Bulge, not naming him, of course. But Antony Beevor in his book Ardennes 1944, referred to this remark that Bradley had made in the presence of his chief of staff, Chet Hansen, and presumably others:

Bradley had boasted with justification on Christmas Eve that `no other army in the world could possibly have shifted forces as expertly and quickly as we have'. On the second day of the offensive, First Army moved 60,000 troops into the Ardennes in just twenty-four hours. The despised Com Z of General Lee had achieved miracles. It also managed to transport 85 per cent of ordnance stocks out of German reach. Between 17 and 26 December, 50,000 trucks and 248,000 men from quartermaster units shifted 2.8 million gallons of gasoline so that panzer spearheads could not refuel from captured dumps.

By not naming General Lee as being the man who successfully commanded this operation, Bradley was, in effect, claiming credit for General Lee’s remarkable achievement for himself. One of many times Bradley engaged in such conduct in respect of important milestones.

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