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...coast is roaring, gimlet-eyed Major General George Smith ("Georgie") Patton, 57. A hell-for-leather cavalryman before World War I, Patton emerged finally as chief of the I Corps of the Armored Force. Behind his back he is known to his men as "Flash Gordon" because of the helmet he wears and the grim face he sticks out of a turret as he bounces hell-for-leather across country in his tank. Succinct and profane, Patton once asked a private what he was shooting at during maneuvers. "A concealed machine gun, sir," said the private. "That...
...world has become a nightmare of bombs and shells. It is incredible. It is almost beyond belief that we are still here, still alive, still waiting and still ready. We cannot write in this madness, but we keep notes with shaking hands. . . I trade a Jap helmet for two quarts of grain alcohol. I've got war nerves again...
...empty Chianti bottle lay in the desert where an Italian had dropped it in his retreat. Near by, the moonlight made a complicated and shadowy apparition out of a wrecked Mark III tank, glinted on a German chocolate tin and a bloodied German helmet...
...standing in a clump of banyan trees and I didn't recognize him at first. He was wearing a big pith helmet and I hadn't calculated on his having a red beard. He stepped out on the road and said, 'Hi, John,' and I said, 'What say, Al,'-a little more excitedly than we would when we met in the corridors of the TIME & LIFE Building in New York...
...Cairo, a transport plane set down Wendell Willkie after the first 11,000-mile lap of his trip to Russia and China* as a dual representative of Franklin Roosevelt and America's loyal opposition. His wardrobe was a tourist's sun helmet and a rumpled, dark blue business suit with a torn pocket. Said the voice from the Midwest to the people of the Mideast: "I've come for a definite purpose. As a member of the party in opposition to the President, I want to say that there is no division in America on the question...