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...second time he lost a command was last October, when "Ike" Eisenhower yanked him out of the Third Army command which had made him Military Governor of Bavaria; he had belittled the differences between Nazis and anti-Nazis, likening them to those between Republicans and Democrats. He got the Fifteenth, a paper Army doing paper work, compiling a history of European campaigns...
General George S. Patton Jr., embarking on his sea of paperwork as commander of the gill-sized Fifteenth Army (TIME, Oct. 15), announced that his most pressing need in the way of equipment was an eye dropper. He also announced, in response to a suggestion that he run for Congress, that he had never had anything to do with politics, "never even voted in my life." He further announced that another war was unavoidable: people who thought otherwise, said he, were wishful thinkers, or believed that wars were the result of logical events, whereas they were caused by madmen...
...other U.S. general has got himself in so much hot water or made so many legends in this war as flamboyant George S. Patton Jr. Last week, as he was banished to the command of a phantom Fifteenth Army (see FOREIGN NEWS), he landed in the middle of another. The background...
...comparing Germany's Nazi problem with U.S. Republicans v. Democrats, and otherwise flouting the orders and policies of General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower (TIME, Oct. 8), General Patton had been summarily dismissed and relegated to a particularly galling desk job (command of the almost non-existent Fifteenth Army, now writing a history of the German campaign...
Working across the narrow Italian front he and his men were among the first to develop through-the-clouds bombing on a big scale (Belgrade and Budapest were among the principal targets). His Fifteenth went through all the ups & downs of shuttle-bombing from Russian bases, and smashed the Ploesti oil refineries in the bargain. Last year the Fifteenth acted as a strategic supporting air force for the final Russian advances...