Word: patton
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...Calais, only 27 miles from Dover, where Rommel and his men sat waiting? Allied bombers kept shelling the Calais area as though softening it for an invasion, even building dummy landing craft in southeastern England, rubber tanks, fake warehouses and barracks. In Operation Fortitude, Lieut. General George Patton commanded a fake Army group, sending fake messages about the phony invasion to come. It all made so much more sense than doing what no invaders had managed in centuries: crossing the 100 miles to the Normandy beaches and plunging ashore; so only 70,000 German troops were waiting there...
...761ST TRAINED AS A PUBLIC RELATIONS GESTURE TO PLACATE THE BLACK COMMUNITY. WHAT CONVINCED GENERAL GEORGE PATTON TO FINALLY LET THESE GUYS FIGHT...
...Patton was desperate for tankers. The 761st had the luxury of training for over two years and knew strengths and weaknesses of the German equipment. If it hadn't been for their extensive training, they would have been chewed up like the rest of the tank units...
...QUESTIONS: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Patton, war and writing history...
...praise funky men--in particular, the funky men of OutKast. For no one has done more than Andre (3000) Benjamin, above left, and Antwan (Big Boi) Patton to infuse pop music with the wit and wiggle of ghetto Bohemianism, no one has done more for tent-size throwback jerseys and cumulus-cloud Afros, and no one has done more to unite the crumbling cultural terrain...