Status Updates From 1945: Victory in the West

Part of the underlying logic of the VARSITY airborne operation had been to help fix Armeegruppe B 's armored reserves and prevent them from being deployed elsewhere and it that the airborne operation was highly succesful.

As Stalingrad, or Ortana had demonstrated earlier.. urban warfare was not only an expensive business, but one in which the West's air suppremacy was an asset of limited value. Eisenhower saw no point in capturing an objective like Berlin at the estimated price of 100k casualties, only to later hand it over as part of the Soviet occupation zone as already defined at Yalta.