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Looks like I had the timeline for the advance off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th_Armored_Division_(United_States) The 5th armored division was in place to take Argentan on the 12th, 4 days before the French 2nd armored. Instead it was routed East, so rather than tying up the pocket it was...

Possible, but not likely. Sure, but there would not be the nucleus of several divisions to build back up for the major battles that happened IOTL. Like no II SS Panzer Corps (along with several other divisions that were involved), which had a rather important role in stopping Market Garden...

I've seen several maps that make the situation confusing, since they all show different positions of divisions in the pocket. This is the one I'm going off of, which is the most detailed I could find for when Argentan was taken by the French 2nd Armored: To be clear the French took Argentan on...

As it says on the tin: what if Patton wasn't stopped and allowed to close the Falaise pocket so that virtually no German troops escaped? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falaise_pocket#Battle How much sooner could the war have been ended? It is estimated about 50,000 men escaped from the pocket...