Word: patch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch was still driving northward from the Riviera toward a junction with the northern armies of General Eisenhower. So badly disorganized was the opposition that much of the time it did not know where its own units were. To avoid helping the enemy, Allied commanders let their communiques lag days behind developments in the field...
Will Lang, veteran of Tunisia, of Salerno, of the Anzio beachhead, went in with the first wave of American infantry (at "a very tough spot," Osborne reported) . . . Reg Ingraham, our naval expert, covered the landings from a warship offshore, then pushed on to Toulon with General Patch's Seventh Army . . . Carl My dans came from Italy to join General de Lattre's fighters in the march on Marseilles (to the best of our knowledge, My dans was the only correspondent with the French forces) . . . and Photographer George Silk flew in from Italy in a British glider which tore...
Original invasion plans appeared to have been scrapped. Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's men were successfully improvising to make the most of good fortune...
Tall, nervous Sandy Patch had plenty of good news to report when his boss, U.S. Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers, dropped in for a visit. Said Patch in a proud order of the day: "We have achieved a great initial victory. The enemy in our area is perplexed and stunned. ... I therefore call on every officer and every man, regardless of fatigue or possible shortage of food and equipment, for uninterrupted continuation of their maximum energy and endurance so that the enemy may not have time to recover. . . . The opportunity for a decisive result is in front...
...Provencals joined in with the invaders to drive the German from their land. Along the shore among groves of cork oak, on the hills where pines tinged the air with the clean smell of resin, Frenchmen fought alongside the swiftly advancing troops of Major General Alexander M. (for McCarrell) Patch, U.S. commander of the Allied Seventh Army...