and here's the rhine river and the siegfried line you've got to come in to normandy, swing through paris to get to the rhine and hitler's third reich. there's georgia and now we're going to go to the movies. 1970, patton. and they're on th island, sicily and they've got big, huge maps of sicily. george and his headquarters. he looks at his staff and says, messina, bill messina's the key to sicily. if they had let me land that syracuse and drive up the coast road. messina, i have every german on this -- island now. it's the same thing with con, ladies and gentlemen. if you're going to go into normandy to get into northwest france, to get to the third reich, you've got to go through con imagine the old fashioned spoke wheel and the center hub that the roads come through north, south, east, west is con you cannot move an army through normandy unless. you have a road network. the only exception, of course, is george patton, because he doesn't go through general montgomery, stays at con and visits there for six weeks. and before gets anywhere. but that's another story. the next map r right sh