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Long forgotten by Europeans and by most U.S. soldiers in Europe is that emotional storm of 19 months ago in which Patton literally gave the back of his hand to a soldier sitting on a hospital cot. The U.S. has not forgotten the episode-but it has begun to misremember it, to transmute it into the Patton legend. The U.S. newspaper with the largest circulation-the tabloid New York Daily News-a few weeks ago editorially referred to him as "Patton, who . . . slapped a soldier . . . for going in the wrong direction from the front...
...recent trips, Tom and I were stabled together. . . . Not more than five minutes after he crept aboard his cot, Mr. Durrance began his performance. He started with the classical buzz-saw motif and ran through other conventional numbers...
...light wounds like broken arms or legs, and they would be evacuated soon. Others, despite the best efforts of many skilled men, would die and lie forever in the alien volcanic ash of Iwo. A medical corpsman who had severe multiple abdominal wounds died as we stood beside his cot. One minute his heavy rasping breath could be heard throughout the tent. The next he was quiet and the sheet was pulled over his head. I saw a big marine who might have been a wrestler, judging by his huge neck and bulging biceps. His barrel chest heaved mightily...
...hold on, but the pressures drained her ("I am just a shell . . . old and colorless . . ."). Blond, hysterical Vinny Whitney's slight strength soon crumbled. She flaunted herself lustfully at the men, finally took up with Lance Diamond, a husky degenerate who had wangled a private room with a cot and kept himself in pocket money by renting it to furtive couples. Mrs. Jenks, once an ordinary matron, in time grew nearly as obnoxious as Lance. A persistent troublemaker, she called the young women "bitch" and "whore" to their faces. Most of the other prisoners just grew thinner and more...
...sleeping on an iron cot in a flimsy wooden house, something like a run-down American beach cottage, in the town of Tacloban. Several correspondents were staying there. Asahel ("Ace") Bush of the Associated Press and John Terry of the Chicago Daily News were in one room, Stanley Gunn of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Clete Roberts of the Blue Network and I in another, John Dowling of the Chicago Sun in a third...