Word: lee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ruark will check the record, he will find that the late General Patton and several other tactical commanders put in writing their appreciation of Lee and his organization...
...know Lee. I was at West Point with him and served with him in the E.T.O. Besides being one of the most capable and the hardest working general I know ... he has character and integrity and an unswerving sense of justice...
...General Lee is one of the most God-fearing men in the Army. He was also noted for his daily enforcement of principles of non-discrimination of race, color or religion among troops, setting an example not only for his subordinates but for the peoples of Europe...
...Advance S.O.S. Headquarters in Valognes, France, August 1944, Lee had to dine off gold-edged china and gold-encrusted goblets. Why criticize him now for what he and the brass did all through the war ? Once a star goes on an officer's shoulders they expect to be treated as a deity. ... It will all be "whitewashed" as usual. . . . That's the Army...
...colored and was a captain in the Fifth Army in Italy. . . . General Lee . . . took a greater interest in us (colored troops in Leghorn) than we had formerly experienced. He instituted many changes and improvements, came around to ask individual G.I.s among us how they were getting on, and in other ways treated us as American soldiers (which type of treatment it was not always our wont to receive). He was a standout...