Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Patch is a fine fellow and a great leader on land, undoubtedly, but anyone will tell you that until the Army is ashore and headquartered, the amphibious attack is in the hands of the top naval officer-this time Vice-Admiral H. Kent Hewitt...
...uproar swelled, the homeward-bound Congressmen wearily realized that the price for getting rid of Will Clayton had been too high. One of their first jobs after the election recess will probably be to patch up the bill...
...with a short-wave radio, who had one of the war's great action stories all to himself. He could tell little through the censorship, but the little he told revealed a battle for the history books. He dubbed the airborne's little island of rubble "this patch of hell." After five days & nights Wood reported "Our men are being asked to do more than ordinary flesh and blood can stand...
...decision was announced on what may be a considerable secondary problem: how exactly to employ Generals Eisenhower, Patton, Bradley, Patch, Devers, Eaker, Spaatz, et al. Will they serve under General MacArthur and Admiral Nimitz...
Logically the bosses of army groups in Western Europe (Bradley and Devers), whose armies are commanded by two and three-star generals (Patch, Patton, Hodges, Simpson), should wear four stars. But this would rank them with General Dwight Eisenhower, boss of land, sea and air forces combined. Furthermore, the man who bosses Eisenhower, George Marshall, wears only four stars himself...