Canadian error at Falaise or misinfomation?

[White_eyes:D]

No question that the germans fought hard to get out of the pocket but they really knew what they were doing. Having a high ranking SS officer surrender is not to be taking lightly. It paid off in the end, since Canadian allied command was taking his words as truth that the German army was not trying to break out, even though the code breakers were hearing different.

The Allied aircraft also didn't destroy as much as was reported. I think they estimated that they destroyed or disabled 68 tanks or something like that. The truth was more around the 20's range.

Edit: Not to say the aircraft didn't do it's job, just that it was not as effective as they thought at taking out the heavy armor.