Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Normandy drive having reached the Loire, Patch lands in Provence...
Other royalties were collected by Lieut. General Patch's northbound Seventh Army, which pushed the Germans hard on the retreat which they had no choice of making because of Eisenhower's success in northern France...
...Sandy" Patch exacted terrible losses from the enemy, in his four-week pursuit up the Rhone and Doubs to the Belfort Gap, where he made junction with the U.S. Third Army. The Germans lost an estimated 60,000 in western France who never had a chance to fight...
...General Eisenhower could look ahead to a rapidly developing Phase V. Report was that in preparation for it he had taken over command of Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army, driving north up the Rhone Valley. Eisenhower took another step he had planned (with British assent) from the beginning: he separated his Allied command into distinct U.S. and British entities, each of them still responsible to him as supreme commander...
...come in and tell me that they are going to divorce their wives. I have little success trying to get them to patch it up. After a man has flown 70 or 90 missions over Europe, laying his life on the block to protect his home, and then finds his home has been wrecked by infidelity, there is little I can tell him to convince him he should forgive and forget...